# The maintenance deficit, with evidence: what changed in v1.2.0, sgit.ai > The changes to the article "The maintenance deficit, with evidence" in v1.2.0, paragraph by paragraph. *Source: · sgit.ai v0.7.87 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../../index.md) / [Articles](../../index.md) / [The maintenance deficit, with evidence](../../the-maintenance-deficit-with-evidence.md) / [Versions](../the-maintenance-deficit-with-evidence.md) / v1.2.0 # The maintenance deficit, with evidence: what changed in v1.2.0 From v1.1.0 (2026-10-23, `02627ff76`) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-27, `db67c5ce1`), paragraph by paragraph. 0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 4 changed in place, 50 unchanged. About 0 words added and 177 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names. [← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [all versions](../the-maintenance-deficit-with-evidence.md) 2 unchanged paragraphs !shot dw-built-on-volunteers.webp | images/ | "Built on volunteers: €108 million for the building, €112,000 for the foundation." Dion Wiggins' illustration for the article:of a building labelled Digital Sovereignty, lifted by a crane carrying the €108 million contract,Sovereignty resting on a cracked column of PHP,volunteerOpenSSL, curl, FFmpeg, libxml2, core-js and pgBackRest, held up by volunteers, beside a jar of $730,534 from 536 donors and a sign saying 11 part-time engineers on duty, while an official with binoculars holds a €2 billion, seven-year sovereignty package. Reused from Dion's public post, with credit.software. | wide 14 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, The piece {#piece}, The numbers, checked {#checked} !shot dw-ratio.webp | images/ | The maintenance deficit ratio, checked:checkedwiththree ways: Dion Wiggins' figures, 241 to 1; with the whole contract and the Sovereign Tech Agency's own page, 263 to 1; with the migration share alone, 179 to 1. Two orders of magnitude in every case.share. | comparison 10 unchanged paragraphs, under Two days on, from our evidence {#two-days} !shot dw-inventory.webp | images/ | The Dutch NCSC's inventory of software that ships or depends on PHP:PHP,onas of 22 October at 15:28 UTC, 724 rows, 61 fixed, 216 vulnerable, 440 under investigation; onand 23 October at 12:50 UTC, 751 rows, 109 fixed, 222 vulnerable, 389 under investigation, 30 not affected.October. | comparison 7 unchanged paragraphs, under An assessment in a day {#assessment}, Why this is a business model failure {#model} !shot dw-flow.webp | images/ | Where the money flows: Germany's €108 million contract over four years, Acquia sold for $1 billion, Automattic's reported revenue of over $700 million in 2024, the EU's €2 billion seven-year open source strategycontracts and its €264 billion a yearrevenues on proprietaryoneIT;side, against the PHP Foundation's $730,534 from 536 donors, 11 to 13 developers, one security engineer for six months, €205,000 from the Sovereign Tech Agency,donations and one person packaging PHP for Debian and Ubuntu.engineers. | comparison 17 unchanged paragraphs, under What would work {#work}, What this does not claim {#limits}, Where this comes from {#sources} [← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [all versions](../the-maintenance-deficit-with-evidence.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/versions/the-maintenance-deficit-with-evidence/v1.2.0.html)*