The Dark Side of Open Source: Are We All Just Selfish?

Open-source software is often seen as a free-for-all, but the reality is more complex. Many companies invest heavily in open source projects as a go-to-market strategy, paying full-time maintainers to ensure project success. This video explores the motivations behind open source, the role of big companies like Google and AWS, and the impact of license changes by companies like MongoDB and HashiCorp. Discover why no open-source project should be owned by a single company and the benefits of foundation-owned projects like Kubernetes and Linux. Learn how you can contribute to and support the open source ecosystem.

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[ScottMooreConsultingLLC]

I have been accused of being against Open Source. Not true. I just want people to be intellectually honest about it. Great video.

[nikolaevkirill]

Great insights! The whole terraform change looked arrange to me. Now it makes sense.

[notyourbusiness]

Not "dark side" (which sounds a bit click-baity), just the cold reality. The pragmatic or practical side, maybe.

BTW, people need such awakening lessons in many other fields. A basic understanding of how the world works.

Good video.

[IvanRizzante]

Thanks for another great video! It's a really good talk🎉

[olafloken]

Very good points .. thanks for sharing. Love your video's

[kftray]

you made some good points about open source. def something to think about

[meshuga]

OSS and commercial projects have different goals and should cooperate. Just don’t forget to use AGPL when starting a new OSS project 😉

[MW-mnel]

I see open source is more like splitning development cost and accelerate development speed, and trades pieces and packages with each others without exchange money. Normally with fewer duplicated effort, except javascript frameworks are the exceptions 😄 Most dev only contribute to packages that they used in products or interesting on, open source for the most part is a cooperate development model.

[ysunil_]

Companies using others resources need to pay it forward

[SPCPerezDelta]

Yes, we, as humans, are all selfish.

[Stefan-Streit]

Very good points - well presented.
Humanity (at least the ones who are privileged enough - like myself - to have even access to computers) got to comfortable and in my opinion most of us still believe in "Money (technology) can fix everything" to much.
It would be much more sustainable --- we'll learn that the hard way anyhow - because of the outcome of climate change = severe weather disruptions (destruction) --- that we really have to get the grip on an economy, that not only goes the way towards "money will fix it all".
If we want to survive in the "greater scheme", we have to learn to contribute to each other, or we "kill us all" off the surface of the planet.
A good read, what a not capitalistic/fear driven economy can look like, is presented by the book "Doughnut economics" by Kate Raworth, I think.