Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

September 8, 2015

Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: …

Filed under: Open Source — Patrick Durusau @ 4:29 pm

by Bryan Cantrill.

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/leaping-the-chasm-from-proprietary-to-open-a-survivors-guide.

Full illumos history mentioned in talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

Corporate open source anti-patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8P4oCIY3g

Very high energy presentation starting with the early history of software. Great coverage of the history of Solaris.

My favorite quip:

Every thing you think about Oracle is true, is actually truer than you think it could be.

You will greatly enjoy the disclaimer story.

Natural law wrong. – “…assertion that APIs can be copyrighted!”

Opensource projects by Joyent:

SmartDataCenter: https://github.com/joyent/sdc

Manta: https://github.com/joyent/manta

My take away? Despite all the amusing stories and tales, I would have to pick “use a weak copy-left license.”

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