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Here we go. S1E1!

Chad Whitacre is head of open source at Sentry, an application and performance monitoring software maker that moved to a business source license for its products in 2019, and then to a functional source license in November 2023. In this episode, he discusses the #tragedyofthecommons vs #enclosure, open source vs open products, #BSL vs #FSL and the story of "The #Codecov kerfuffle." #OSS #softwarecommons #opensource #opensourcesustainability #podcast

https://itopsquery.podbean.com/e/chad-whitacre-sentry/

Open source vs source available code and balancing freedom with sustainability | IT Ops Query

Chad Whitacre is head of open source at Sentry, an application and performance monitoring software maker that moved to a business source license for its products in 2019, and then to a functional source license in November 2023. Most recently, Chad has been working on a new project called Software Commons over the last six months, with the goal of balancing the user freedom prioritized by open source software with developer sustainability. In this episode, he discusses the tragedy of the commons vs enclosure, open source vs open products, BSL vs FSL and more.

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@johl@mastodon.xyz · 2 weeks ago

The #Enclosure feedback loop or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good:

“[…]something has been taken from the public. Not just the training data, but the public forums and practices that created this training data in the first place. […] LLM companies are now selling back to us something that used to be available for free.”

https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop