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Sovereign Lumber
Two talks, on the software analogy to lumber and chairs, and on software sovereignty in Europe, connected in my mind, and hit at the essence of what’s missing in the open source ecosystem today...
It’s ready-to-use well-maintained software, which may includes nice packaging or installation help, support, services, seamless upgrades, SLAs, compliance contracts, customizations, white-glove onboarding, etc. Both great products, but both are built primarily by paid engineers, rather than by a community; and the money comes mainly from big companies with non-open-source business models. That’s true even if all they control is a part of the software — some proprietary outside-the-open-core functionality, but that's exactly the piece that the vendor withheld from the open-source product to twist your sovereign arm into paying.
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