VM Brasseur gives the definitive overview of open source challenges

Joining us this week is VM (Vicky) Brasseur from Open Source Initiative.

Highlights
1 min 20 sec: Types of Companies Supported
Companies don’t know why they want to do open source
3 min 23 sec: Can’t Abandon Software into Community
Communities don’t instantly form around your software
4 min 22 sec: Is Marketing “Evil” in Open Source
Marketing has become associated with advertising which is invasive
5 min 19 sec: Define Marketing
Discovering the needs of the market and build to support it
Technologists don’t really understand marketing
6 min 17 sec: Issues of Marketing in Open Source
What is your goal in using open source?
8 min 15 sec: Everyone has their own Goal in Open Source
There is no bullet point list of how to do open source
9 min 29 sec: Issues of Accessing Projects and Support for Free
Open source done a poor job of talking about value being provided
People assume big projects are paid for by large companies so they take advantage
13 min 19 sec: Difficult to Tell New User’s End State as Communities Invest in Helping them Learn the Technology
Some communities set the bar too high for user participation
Open source does a bad job in documentation typically
17 min 9 sec: What about CI/CD Systems?
Not a significant issue today in open source for contributors
19 min 21 sec: How help People Build Empathy for Users and Maintainers and Impact when Corporations are involved
21 min 29 sec: How Communities Manage Competitive Companies Working Together
Foundations play a key role in managing these issues
Open source is not corporate! The vast majority of open source is not corporate based
Is there less concern for the tiny project’s vs the large corporate projects?
Substantial lack of awareness of this in user community
25 min 04 sec: Price to a Community when a Customer Pulls out and Uses Corporate Version of Solution?
Should companies pay for open source software they grab from community?
Many ways to contribute other than money
27 min 56 sec: Business Continuity Issues in Open Source
Free and open source software needs to be part of business continuity plans
Vendor software solutions are equally risky as open source solutions
30 min 36 sec: Define Copyleft
4 Freedoms of Copyleft from Richard Stallman
Can never change the license of Copyleft software
32 min 43 sec: Open Core Model
Analogy of a restaurant with more tables than it can serve
Proprietary products with open source APIs / SDKs