Who Pays for Open Source? A Case for Open Governance & Enterprise Contributions
summary
Argues that sustainable open source requires multi-stakeholder funding and formal governance rather than ad-hoc repos or single-vendor control, citing $34 billion Red Hat acquisition and 50% of companies encourage contributions as evidence of enterprise commitment. Describes tools used: foundations, permissive licenses, contributor guidelines, CI/CD, and the Core Infrastructure Initiative for security. Shows that projects under open governance (Apache, Eclipse, Linux Foundation) scale and persist, and that enterprise-backed pieces like Hyperledger Fabric offering actually get sustained.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:50Open source business models
- 4:21Risks of single-vendor open source
- 10:26Open governance as a solution
- 14:46Successful open governance examples
- 19:10Costs and funding of open governance
- 23:03IBM’s role in open source history
- 26:57Building ecosystems around open tech
- 31:11Three approaches to open source
- 33:37Resources and closing remarks
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