What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
summary
History of GNU and Linux, then concrete examples: creation of Bootstrap, Ender, Hogan JS, Bower and Ratchet, Git + GitHub adoption, IRC workflow and Hacker News attention. Claims that GitHub makes stars and watchers into a literal currency and that projects balloon (Bootstrap hits 40,000 stars) producing maintenance guilt and burnout. Cites “cute puppy syndrome” as the mechanism, describes people handing projects off or leaving, and argues this accelerates project lifecycle.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:18History of Open Source
- 2:44Usenet
- 3:11Richard Stallman
- 3:57Canoe
- 5:01Emacs
- 5:16UNIX
- 6:48Linux
- 11:40Netscape
- 13:22Open Source
- 14:05Marx
- 16:25New Currency
- 18:17Fake Beard
- 19:52Cute Puppy Syndrome
- 22:38Puppy metaphor
- 23:42You know open
- 24:22Tragedy
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