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.

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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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Recommendations

• Brandon: ESPN, Disney+ to Stream Live NFL Game Set in the World of ‘The Simpsons’


• Matt: Audio books on Spotify
  
  
  • 200,000+ Audiobooks Are Now Available to Spotify Premium Listeners in the U.S
  
  


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

Photo Credits

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