Game of Open Source: A Tale of Hype & Mire
summary
History and hard numbers decide: why open source falters when hype fades, which licenses changed (Elastic, MongoDB, Confluent, commons clause moves), and how cloud vendors monetize without contributing back (AWS and open distro for elasticsearch example). Maintenance collapses into burnout—NPM left-pad disaster, curl and Daniel Stenberg’s fragile funding—and huge users rely on it (CERN runs 8,000 servers 280,000 cores 33,000 VMs on OpenStack). Concrete business models, forks, and whether distributions actually fund maintenance determine whether a project survives.
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chapters (45)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:14Why should you care
- 1:56Jonno Bacon
- 4:21What the fork Amazon
- 4:40Goals from this session
- 5:12Why this should matter to you
- 5:32Richard Stallman
- 7:30Free Software Foundation
- 11:31The Threat of Cloud Providers
- 12:38Foundations
- 14:03Successful model
- 14:33Upstream release
- 15:07Timeline
- 16:53The Landscape
- 17:45The Constant Mindset
- 18:11Vicious Disruption Cycle
- 19:05Open Source Code
- 20:04Open Source Maintenance
- 21:16Mother of Dragons
- 22:28Maintaining Open Source Projects
- 25:44Distribution
- 26:19Supported projects
- 27:24Elastic IPO
- 27:54Distribution model
- 29:46License Wars
- 30:30MongoDB
- 30:54SSP
- 31:09Chef
- 31:27Confluent
- 31:42Elastic
- 31:58NPM
- 32:44AWS
- 33:22Amazon
- 34:06Microsoft
- 36:24House incumbents
- 36:40IBM
- 36:59Red Hat
- 37:18Tshirts
- 41:03Open Source
- 41:50KVM
- 42:30Apps Flyer
- 43:24Do you want this to play out
- 43:48Misconceptions
- 44:49Daniel Steinberg
- 45:59AppsFlyer
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