You're Doing it Wrong: OSPO Disasters
Talkat Open Source Summit North America 2022 · on Thursday, 2022-06-23· at 14:55· Room 301/302 (Level 3), JW Marriott Austin, 110 E 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701·
summary
Companies lose talent when internal rules block community contributions, with hiring replacement costs estimated at 75–200% of salary. One product embeds GPL code in distributed images and lacks contractor copyright assignments, which kills a prospective $25M acquisition. Trademark threats trigger ecosystem damage — recall the left-pad npm removals and the Replit trademark backlash. Oracle’s handling of Hudson and OpenOffice drives developers to forks (Jenkins, LibreOffice), handing competitors the market.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:38OSPO Disasters
- 1:38How to Create Value Destruction
- 4:07The Licenses
- 6:10Threats
- 8:21Lessons Learned
- 9:10Special Thanks
- 9:24Hudson
- 9:59Jenkins
- 10:24Open Office
- 11:00Oracle
- 11:52Outro
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