Building On Success: What’s the Future of Open Source?
summary
The talk names concrete shifts: the EU Product Liability Directive now includes software with a two year implementation window, regulators push for software bill of materials (S‑BOMs), and Europe estimates open source value at 65–95 billion euros while a Harvard study puts demand‑side value near 8–9 trillion. Companies adopt OSPOs (about 30% of large companies), platforms like GitHub Sponsors and Tidelift exist, SAS launches sasssoftware.github.io, and the transition costs about 30% more — tools and processes (CVE triage, SBOMs, OSPOs) are already working to mitigate risk.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:10Open source history 1969-1998
- 5:20Key moments to open source term
- 8:09Defining stewardship 1998
- 9:52Modern regulations and SBOMs
- 13:43Open source success problems
- 16:26Funding and corporate responsibility
- 17:28Role of OSPOs
- 20:36Why engage with open source
- 21:37Future cost of open source support
- 22:19Collaboration among foundations
- 23:22Community as open source foundation
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