“What is Open Source, and Why Should You Care?"
summary
A concise history of how open source evolves into working systems with governance, tooling and surprising scale: origin of the GPL / copyleft to lock in freedoms, Richard Stallman’s Xerox printer incident, Linux as a meritocratic project with dozens to hundreds of contributors, long build cycles for Chromium/Firefox, the Volkswagen emissions example showing why inspectable source matters, 3D printing and Thingiverse enabling a fix like a 3D-printed coffee pot handle, and programs to onboard contributors such as Google Summer of Code and Outreachy.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and concepts
- 15:05Historical context
- 27:57Impact on development
- 35:40Enabling factors
- 40:28Beyond software
- 1:01:45Getting involved
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