What lessons can we learn from Red Hat’s killing off of CentOS Linux, Elastic’s licensing changes, and AWS’s recent fork of Elasticsearch?

Let’s explore that topic in this video about how the Open Source Software ecosystem is changing—maybe for the worse.

Here’s a blog post version of this video, if you’re so inclined: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/cracks-are-showing-enterprise-open-sources-foundations

Contents:

• 00:00 - Chinks in OSS’s armor
• 01:23 - Red Hat and CentOS
• 03:30 - Elastic and AWS
• 04:48 - SSPL is not open source
• 05:38 - What’s can we do?
• 07:03 - Maybe Stallman is right

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