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Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns
Bryan Cantrill's talk on corporate open source anti-patterns, first given at FISL 2012 and again at the Liferay Symposium. He lays out the mistakes companies make when open sourcing code, such as announcing future open sourcing, and discusses licenses.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters invoke it whenever a company relicenses, forks, or announces an open source plan, and enjoy Cantrill's energetic, opinionated delivery.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Bryan Cantrill
- Topic
- corporate open source
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Just yesterday I came across one of his other videos, and I guess Bryan Cantrill still as a bit of grudge against Oracle: Light ranting: [VIDEO] A bit heavier ranting (with the fallout after his usenix ranting): [VIDEO] Selected quote: "Any explanation of Oracle that …
kakwa_ on Hacker News · 2019-03
In Warren Buffett Joins the Crowd Struggling to Understand OracleBryan Cantrill had an insightful talk "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns" surrounding events from 8-12 years ago, and all I'll say is history definitely echoes sometimes: [VIDEO]
geerlingguy on Hacker News · 2023-08
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