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Volume 21, Issue 5
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  • The Nebraska problem in open source software development
    Masayuki Hatta
    Article type: research-article
    2022 Volume 21 Issue 5 Pages 91-102
    Published: October 15, 2022
    Released on J-STAGE: October 15, 2022
    Advance online publication: October 13, 2022
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.7880/abas.0220914a
    JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS
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    In the world of open source constructed on the basis of the Unix philosophy, there are cases of unsung heroic programs in obscure locations being maintained in a detailed way by a single unknown person or a small number of unknown people, mainly for personal reasons. However, if once these small programs close to the bottom rung of the ladder break, it may cause a loss of balance and collapse of our entire modern infrastructure. This is referred to as the Nebraska Problem in this paper. We can see from the actual and serious case of the Heartbleed bug that “the number of eyeballs” taken for granted in Linus's Law up to this point needs to be proactively secured, and we need to consider complementary measures, such as SBOM, against risk in advance.

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