[Themaintainers] Organizational learning to maintain (open sourcing)

[Bastien]

Hi David,

"David Ing isss at daviding.com" <isss at daviding.com> writes:

> The reason that this should be of interest to the
> Maintainers community is that a large part of the investment is in
> maintenance, not developing new-to-the-world programs.

I would be very interested in sources supporting this last statement.

Context: I am trying to make a point within the public sector that we
should invest on maintaining open source software that we depend on.
Showing that companies share this approach would possibly help me.

Thanks!

-- 
 Bastien