The war for the soul of open source (Interview)

Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled “The war for the soul of open source.” We talked about what made open source great in the first place, what went wrong, the pitfalls of open core models, licensing, and more.

By the way, we’re at OSCON this week so if you make your way to the expo hall, make sure you come by our booth and say hi.

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Featuring:

• Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

You can now watch Adam’s OSCON keynote on his YouTube channel.

• “The war for the soul of open source”
• Chef
• Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
• “So happy that @chef is now a 100% open source company. They are done being open core, and I have to say, I’m stoked about it. It aligns the company with its core values in a way that is so much more elegant and understandable.”
• 996 License
• Utility monster on Wikipedia
• Why we’re relicensing CockroachDB
• Redis will remain BSD licensed

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