Who Pays for Open Source? A Case for Open Governance & Enterprise Contributions
summary
Open source wins but sustaining quality requires money, process and shared ownership: advocating open governance with multi‑vendor foundations (Apache, Eclipse, Linux Foundation), contributor rules, permissive licensing and diverse vendors. Cite failures — Parse and FoundationDB abandoned by single vendors, OpenSSL’s Heartbleed revealing two unpaid maintainers — and a striking claim that ~50% of enterprises now encourage contributions. Examples of enterprise action include Hyperledger Fabric, OpenJ9 and the Core Infrastructure Initiative funding maintenance and CI to make projects production‑grade and lower systemic risk.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 5:05Open source evolution and trends
- 15:50Open source value chain and risks
- 26:32Open governance model explained
- 35:09Funding open source foundations
- 41:50IBM’s open source contributions
- 50:30Ethics and community in open source
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