Open-Source

Josh and Kurt talk about the events happening to the Audacity audio editor. What happens if a popular open source application is acquired by an unknown entity? Can this happen to other open source projects? What can we do about it? https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_279_The_audacity_of_Audacity_When_open_source_goes_rogue.mp3 Show Notes SGDQ Paper Mario Paper Mario Arbitrary Code Execution explained Freenode Audacity acquired by Muse Group Audacity fork

Josh and Kurt talk about the question “what is open source?” Why do we think it’s broken today, and what sort of ideas about what should come next. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_259_What_even_is_open_source_anymore.mp3 Show Notes OSI Bruce Perens Post Open Source Josh’s community blog post Corey Doctorow Uber Twitter thread

I wrote a blog post about looking back, and I have a bit of snark in there where I talk about slowing down the future. I wanted to explain this a bit more and give everyone some food for thought around how we used to do things and how we should do them moving forward. There are groups and people that exist to slow things down. Sometimes that’s on purpose for good reasons, sometimes it’s on purpose for bad reasons, sometimes it’s not on purpose at all. ...