.NET Rocks Live: Making OpenSource Work for Everyone
summary
Argument that open source is structurally unsustainable: concrete examples include diagnosing a stalled site in the Azure portal and fixing it by moving an app to a new app service plan after hitting 15 services, and widespread libraries like Polly seeing millions of NuGet downloads but no income for maintainers. Proposes practical fixes — payments/billing built into GitHub/NuGet, dual licensing, paid support — to stop unpaid labor and platform monopolies (Elastic, Docker Desktop, IdentityServer) from hollowing out maintenance.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Welcome to .NET Rocks Live
- 2:12Show introduction
- 4:20Azure portal saves the day
- 7:28Open source funding with Miguel de Icaza
- 9:55Introducing David Whitney
- 10:37Why open source funding matters
- 13:50Software devaluation consequences
- 17:24Open source exploitation allowed
- 20:38Challenging open source orthodoxy
- 22:44Weaponizing open source ethics
- 23:28Billing for future ecosystems
- 26:16Demand fair developer pay
- 29:50Audience on paying for open source
- 31:14Pandemic reflection power
- 34:03Copyleft licenses unintended protection
- 35:50New license models for fair use
- 37:57Kubernetes monopolizing open source
- 41:07Ethical open source platforms
- 42:28Cloud providers as utilities
- 43:50Elastic’s open source future
- 44:54Corporations are neutral, but developers should be paid
- 45:38News media paywall parallel
- 46:43GitHub missing payment infra
- 48:09Audience on fair financial models
- 51:40Microsoft and GitHub next steps
- 52:02Call to action
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