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# Open Source Software's Funding Crisis Exposes Internet Infrastructure Risk
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/open-source-softwares-funding-crisis-exposes-internet-infrastructure-risk/
- Published: 2026-10-24T16:13:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T16:13:08.000Z
- Description: The CrowdStrike outage—a faulty update cascading through enterprise systems—exposes a market failure in critical infrastructure: millions of organizations depend on free or minimally-funded software maintained by volunteers with zero redundancy.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, regulation/policy, internet infrastructure, open source

Source: [Deeplinks](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/vulnerability-apocalypse-and-why-we-should-fund-open-source?ref=adjacent.media)

The CrowdStrike outage—a faulty update cascading through enterprise systems—exposes a market failure in critical infrastructure: millions of organizations depend on free or minimally-funded software maintained by volunteers with zero redundancy. The cost of vulnerability is socialized (everyone's sites down, supply chains frozen) while maintenance costs are privatized to underfunded maintainers. This creates a structural incentive for security shortcuts. Until corporations treating open source as a free tier accept accountability through direct funding or liability, similar outages will recur.