When I first wrote about the tragedy of the commons and Maven Central, I called attention to a startling reality: a small percentage of users — mostly large enterprises — were unknowingly flooding a public resource.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from 2024 Sonatype Blog authored by Brian Fox. Read the original post at: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/free-isnt-free-the-hidden-costs-of-tooling-decisions-in-open-source-infrastructure