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Episode 491: The OSS Money Trap

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.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 491

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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Brandon: ESPN, Disney+ to Stream Live NFL Game Set in the World of ‘The Simpsons’
Matt: Audio books on Spotify

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

Photo Credits

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The OSS Money Trap

Episode 491

November 1st, 2024

1 hr 6 mins

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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.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 491