The OSS Money Trap

About this Episode

This week, we discuss the latest DORA report and what happens when open-source projects make money. Plus, some thoughts on Halloween abroad in the Netherlands and Australia.

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Runner-up Titles

• This is a lifestyle business.
• The Benioff Line.
• Mahalo
• The innings in the marathon
• We’re left picking up the trash
• 20 pounds of crap in a 10 pound sack
• Focus on all parts of the chain
• If any open source project creates value, it’s going to create resentment.
• The Open Source Success Paradox
• Mad King for Cash. (In the world of Brandon’s mind.)

Rundown

• DORA
  • 2024 State of DevOps Report
  • Listener Chris did some live PDF reading in the SDT Slack
  • Key findings and takeaways from this year’s State of DevOps report
  • DORA Community of Practice
  • AI is terrible at shift-left (DORA Models and Practices)
• Trademarks and OSS
  • The Wordpress Drama Interview (this got cited in a lawsuit
  • Elasticsearch is open source, again with Shay Banon
  • Linkerd Forever

Relevant to your Interests

• Excel enters its 40th year
• San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
• Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
• Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
• Ghosts in the Machine - JSTOR Daily
• Apple opens Private Cloud Compute to public scrutiny
• #1467 OpenCost Incubation Proposal #1046 (vote closed)
• Big Blue
• Balatro creator admits his attempt to 100% his own roguelike game before the mobile port was doomed, and now he has "some words for John Balatro"
• We finally have an 'official' definition for open source AI
• Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
• A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
• Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad have USB-C

Nonsense

• Severance season two teaser trailer shows the world's worst return-to-office policy in action
• Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team

Listener Feedback

• T-Mobile back up Home Internet

Conferences

• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
• GoTech World, Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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• Coté: Impro book. paper and pen. Best The Economist cover ever.

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