What Daniel Stenberg thinks about open source

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

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1. 3 Aug 2026

   Our readingOpen source work is largely voluntary, so its maintainers need periodic breaks too.

   Their wordsit helps sending a signal and a reminder that Open Source is to a large extent done voluntarily and even maintainers need a break at times.

   ↗What the bliss taught usdaniel.haxx.se