Andrew NesbittWhat happens when a large open source project dies?
clew“The file formats we commit live after us; Runtime optimizations go to the grave.”
The conclusion made me wonder how many other industries went through similar periods of diversification and consolidation. You need interoperability to be important for the equivalent of an API … Bolts? Recording media? Bicycles? Canning jars?
Vlad-Stefan Harbuz@clew @andrewnez Industrial epistemology studies just what the body of knowledge of engineering is, and what processes were used to reach it. Engineering standards are in many ways similar to Open Source standards/protocols/etc.
(1) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19378629.2022.2124025#d1e75
(2) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-16172-3_9
Not just the proper name but *footnotes*! thank you.