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Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns

Bryan Cantrill · 23.8K views · 2014-09-17 · 43:04

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Overview

Bryan Cantrill's talk on corporate open source anti-patterns, first given at FISL 2012 and again at the Liferay Symposium. He lays out the mistakes companies make when open sourcing code, such as announcing future open sourcing, and discusses licenses.

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HN commenters invoke it whenever a company relicenses, forks, or announces an open source plan, and enjoy Cantrill's energetic, opinionated delivery.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2014–2023

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geerlingguy · 2023-08 · Recommendation

Bryan Cantrill had an insightful talk "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns" surrounding events from 8-12 years ago, and all I'll say is history definitely echoes sometimes: [VIDEO]

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kakwa_ · 2019-03 · Recommendation

Just yesterday I came across one of his other videos, and I guess Bryan Cantrill still as a bit of grudge against Oracle: Light ranting: [VIDEO] A bit heavier ranting (with the fallout after his usenix ranting): [VIDEO] Selected quote: "Any explanation of Oracle that doesn't end with a nazi allegory does not fully explain Oracle" Bryan Cantrill is really fun to listen to, is a tech veteran now, and is still as passionate and energetic as he was the first day (Another interesting video about programming languages he experienced during his (long by tech standards) career: [LINK] )

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geerlingguy · 2023-08 · Reference

This is one of the Corporate Open Source anti-patterns Bryan Cantrill mentions in his talk a number of years ago: [VIDEO] It always feels scummy having to assign copyright for my own contributions to a big company.

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