Keynote: Open Matters
summary
Argues that personal photos and edits flow into Apple and Google clouds and into an Adobe cloud where proprietary training and ownership obscure who controls edits and metadata; notes EU lets users download data but formats and algorithms lock it to providers; points out issue comments and PR history live as GitHub data not in git; cites Tornado Cash repo takedown, the OpenSSF Alpha-Omega effort, and the striking stat that 95% of stacks are open source while 99% of spending goes to the other 5%.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27Open and digital identity
- 3:15Who owns your data
- 7:33Network effects and lock-in
- 8:34Open source on GitHub
- 10:23Risks of losing access
- 11:47Self-hosting and alternatives
- 12:51Sustaining open infrastructure
- 13:54Funding gap in open source
- 14:36Why open matters
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