We discuss all things open-source, leaving Michael and Joe to hold down the fort while Allen is away, while Joe's impersonations are spot on and Michael is on a first name basis, assuming he can pronounce it.
This episode of the Coding Blocks podcast is about the people and organizations behind open-source software. We talk about the different incentives behind projects, and their governance to see if we can understand our ecosystem better.
This episode's show notes can be found at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode150, if you're reading this via your podcast player.
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You Thought You Knew OSS
Q: What do most developers think about when they think of "open-source" software?
Q: Is the formal definition more important than the general perception?
Formal Definitions of Open-Source
- opensource.org: Open source software is made by many people and distributed under an OSD-compliant license which grants all the rights to use, study, change, and share the software in modified and unmodified form. Software freedom is essential to enabling community development of open source software.
- opensource.com: Open source commonly refers to software that uses an open development process and is licensed to include the source code
Pop Quiz, who created…?
- C: Dennis Ritchie
- Linux: Linus Torvolds
- Curl: Daniel Sternberg
- Python: Guido von Rossum
- JavaScript: Brandon Eich (Netscape)
- Node: Ryan Dahl
- Java: James Gosling (Sun)
- Git: Linus Torvalds
- C#: Microsoft (Anders Hejlsberg)
- Kubernetes: Google
- Postgres: Michael Stonebraker
- React: Facebook
- Rust: Mozilla
- Chromium: Google
- Flutter: Google
- TypeScript: Microsoft
- Vue: Evan You
Q: It seems like most newer projects (with the exception of Vue) are associated with corporations or foundations. When and why did that change?
GitHub Star Distribution
Q: What are the most popular projects? Who were they made for, and why?
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