Making the Business Case for Contributing to Open Source
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual · on Thursday, 2020-11-19· at 14:55· Intrado Virtual Event Platform,·
summary
Companies see concrete returns: Black Duck finds 96% of apps use OSS, >50% of codebase, and contributions reduce technical debt by upstreaming fixes and attracting external maintainers like the community-built react router and redux that replaced internal tools. Strategic examples include Android/Chromium for Google, Intel’s heavy Linux contributions, and Facebook’s Open Compute saved billions; business playbook includes an ROI framework, mitigations (don’t open core IP), and staged actions like hackathons and small upstreams.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:15Software Disruption
- 0:55Open Source Is Eating the World
- 2:10Why Contribute to Open Source
- 2:53The Problem
- 3:49The Purpose
- 5:42Strategic Benefits
- 10:32Paying Technical Debt
- 11:20External Contributions
- 12:18Second Order Benefits
- 16:30Tilting the Scales
- 17:13Negative Aspects
- 19:05Lost IP
- 19:48Other risks
- 20:52Key takeaways
- 21:23Suggestions
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