Open source package repositories face sustainability crisis
www.theregister.com
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

note to mods: this is an opinion article, but it contains a lot of newsworthy statistics and prose on Maven (Java ecosystem package repository) being used as a CDN

  • DeebsterEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Yeah ok, I guess that’s what’s meant.

    I’d be interested to know how the patterns changed - perhaps requests moved to IPv6 which made grouping request origins harder, or maybe too many unconnected users were coming from a single IP and getting false positives (leading to bad UX and support requests).