We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for October 24th, 2022.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was dear friend-of-Oxide, Stephen O'Grady. Other speakers on October 24th included Ian Rountree. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
- Monktoberfest - Red Monk's annual conference in Maine
- @7:40 cheating in baseball
- The shot heard 'round the world
- For non-American and/or non-baseball fans "inside baseball" is an idiom meaning "an expert's take or opinion"
- Also, Stephen, Bryan, and Adam love actual baseball so there was quite a bit of that as well...
- For the baseball fans, the Bryce Harper at bat we were so excited about
- @12:55 The main event
- Stephen's The Dead End
- @20:45 The smoke-filled room with CTOs collaborating
- No concern for collateral damage to the industry, the future of software, see also hustle porn
- Commons Clause
- @20:55 EULA-like language
- What does a EULA mean if I can build the software myself
- Lack of case law around open-source licensing, even lack of legal precision in the language
- lawyers messaging to other lawyers
- trying to use a license to solve a business model problem
- @29:40 Bryan's VC rant
- VCs build to flip, short time horizons
- using open-source downloads as a proxy for product-market-fit
- You could not have built Google, Amazon, Meta - without open-source software
- Pulling up the ladders
- @41:45 Immanual Kant
- The Categorical Imperative
- One person littering isn't a big deal. Everyone littering is a big deal.
- @51:40 Lower-hanging fruit in the industry, ripe for ruining
- infrastructure middleware, market where people have historically been willing to throw money at it
- Impossible to relicense projects with sufficiently large contributors and no assignment of copyright - Linux would be beyond impossible
- left-pad incident
- Uniqueness of Red Hat's evolution
- Open is the default for today's developers, but that openness was hard fought and hard won
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!