Did maintainers abandon your critical open-source tool? This rescue plan offers a lifeline

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• EmeritOSS provides a new lease of life for three open-source projects.
• The tool adds a way to patch otherwise abandoned programs.
• More open-source projects will be added if there’s demand.

You may find it hard to believe, but there are critical open-source programs, such as Kubernetes’ Ingress-NGINX, that are dying for lack of support. Now, Chainguard, a cybersecurity company focused…