The Economics of Open Source

The Economics of Open Source

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The Economics of Open Source

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 The economics of package management
  3. 3 you are in this story
  4. 4 open-source doesn't mean open ownership or control
  5. 5 the package registry is centralized
  6. 6 centralization has advantages
  7. 7 centralization of costs
  8. 8 servers cost money who pays for them?
  9. 9 founding a company was a novel choice
  10. 10 those large numbers sure are large
  11. 11 open source generates a lot of value
  12. 12 open source vs free software
  13. 13 capitalism loves open source
  14. 14 the language spec
  15. 15 our common registry of shared code is owned by a private company
  16. 16 what are the consequences of private control?
  17. 17 no input into registry policies
  18. 18 the registry is what matters not the clients
  19. 19 the management of our commons is opaque to us
  20. 20 there is no trust without accountability
  21. 21 you had no way to hold me accountable
  22. 22 so is npm evil? mu. ask a different question.
  23. 23 npm is a financial instrument
  24. 24 npm Inc is a means for turning some money into more money
  25. 25 It's 2018. Packages flow like water.
  26. 26 packages cost money even if you're not paying for them
  27. 27 make money or raise money by telling a story about spending money to make money
  28. 28 imagine npm run by a non-benevolent entity
  29. 29 I agree with Ryan Dahl
  30. 30 entropic a federated package manager
  31. 31 new cli & new api decentralized: many registries

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