How Cloud is Changing Open Source
summary
Argues that cloud vendors are “eating” open source by running projects as managed services, forcing license changes and forks: Confluent Community License and Elastic’s relicensing provoke AWS to ship Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Cites market signals — AWS ~31–34% share, 84% of enterprises using multi‑cloud, $65B of open‑source investment in 2018 — and shows concrete builds at Comcast like Trickster (Prometheus cache), Apache Traffic Control and vinylDNS, used in production.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:35Software is Eating the World
- 3:24Cloud Continues to Grow
- 4:40OSS Is Critical to Play in the Cloud
- 6:28Open Source is Attracting Large Scale Investment
- 8:20Consolidations and Acquisitions
- 9:44Current and New Business Models
- 12:33Open-Core Model Defined
- 13:39New Licenses
- 16:36Case Study: Confluent
- 18:43Case Study: Elasticsearch
- 20:26What can we do?
- 22:46Comcast's Open Source Journey
- 24:34Community Engagement with Oss Foundations
- 25:38comcast.github.io
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