Open Source is one person

So what do we mean by one person is open source. What I mean is if we look at all the projects that ecosyste.ms is tracking, how many have a single person maintaining that project? It’s about 7 million.

7 million projects of the 11.8M projects tracked by ecosystems are maintained by one person.

Looking at NPM in particular:

About half of the 13,000 most downloaded NPM packages are ONE PERSON.

In conclusion:

Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need.