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