Corporate Open Source is Dead
Nobody likes being rugpulled. But lately, it's going around like a virus.
Why are so many former open source darlings selling out or relicensing? And is there anything you can do to fight back against these anti-open-source practices?
Resources I mentioned in this video:
IBM's $6.4b HashiCorp Purchase: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals...
Hacker News comments on IBM and HashiCorp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
HashiCorp meme: / 1783303926042996928
Redis' new licensing: https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-du...
My article on Red Hat's license changes: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
Article on Hashicorp and other license changes: https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-aban...
OpenTofu fork announcement: https://opentofu.org/blog/the-opentof...
Redis fork battle: https://www.thestack.technology/battl...
Everybody hates the Redis forking mess: https://arstechnica.com/information-t...
Redka SQLite Redis not-fork: https://github.com/nalgeon/redka
OpenELA press release: https://www.suse.com/news/OpenELA-for...
IBM job cuts in marketing and communications: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/ibm-t...
Shouting in the datacenter: • Shouting in the Datacenter
Fork Yeah! Bryan Cantrill's presentation: • LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Deve...
Drew DeVault's blog post on CLAs: https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Do...
GNU - 'Open Source misses the point': https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-s...
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Contents:
00:00 - What happened
00:34 - The rot sets in
02:01 - The year open source dies
02:47 - CLAs considered toxic
03:52 - Free vs open
04:31 - Opportunity knocks
05:48 - Freeloaders
