Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software (KEYNOTE)
summary
Argues that open source is infrastructure not a commons and cites the 2021 log4j vulnerability, fixed by 16 unpaid volunteers while Google estimates 8% of Maven packages were affected; contrasts unpaid maintenance with funded pieces like LLVM/clang and Rust foundation support; notes Germany’s sovereign tech fund investing in Log4J post-incident; recommends more foundations and collectives (Open Collective, Apache, Linux Foundation) to coordinate funding and attention without destroying anarchic contribution norms.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:56Log4j as infrastructure
- 13:33Infrastructure assumption
- 25:35Open source power
- 36:37Funding open source
- 45:01Conclusion
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