[knowtheory]

> I wonder if NYT can help other news websites by making their code open source?

Hey! I, and a number of other news nerds have been encouraging FOSS for the past decade or so. And in fact a number of major open source projects have come out of news related projects, including Django, Backbone.js/Underscore.js, Rich Harris's work on Svelt.js, and a whole lot more.

Most often the problem with local news organizations are operational constraints. The news biz has seen a huge downturn over this same period of time. Most orgs, both on the reporting side and on the tech side are super strapped for people-time.

It's not enough to have FOSS software, you also have to have folks doing devops and maintaining systems often at below-market salaries.