Open Source Software and Corporate Influence
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Open source projects exist under a social contract between the maintainers who produce the software and the users who consume and who may contribute back to it. While maintainers do not owe anything to their users — to quote the popular MIT license “THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS,’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND” — most maintainers do try to meet an implied social contract of the minimum expectations of an open source software project.