An open letter titled "We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together" announced Akrites, a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open-source software the world runs on.
The framing is hard to argue with: the same open-source libraries underpin banking, telecommunications, utilities, and countless services people use every day — yet much of that code is maintained by a handful of volunteers. The industry absorbed open source into everything; it never fully funded its security.
Why now
After a string of high-profile supply-chain scares, the appetite for a structured, upstream-first response has grown. Akrites is pitched as that response — less a foundation, more a defense pact for shared infrastructure.
Source: akrites.org