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Read this korrent: Open source won because it let companies bypass procurement, legal review and contracts, not because it was free of charge.
Open source won because it let companies bypass procurement, legal review and contracts, not because it was free of charge.
Last stated 10 months ago
16 Nov 2025
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Thomas Depierre — holds since 2025-11-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. — tap to centre the map on it
A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be…
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. — tap to centre the map on it
A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the…
Last stated 8 years ago
22 Aug 2018
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Drew DeVault — holds since 2018-08-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel. — tap to centre the map on it
A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence…
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come. — tap to centre the map on it
A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to…
Last stated 4 months ago
13 May 2026
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Anders Hejlsberg — holds since 2026-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Agent-written pull requests already outclass those of the median human contributor to an open source project. — tap to centre the map on it
Agent-written pull requests already outclass those of the median human contributor to an open source project.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI coding agents advance open source's founding goal by letting far more people modify software, so barring AI-assisted contributions protects a guild rather than the mission. — tap to centre the map on it
AI coding agents advance open source's founding goal by letting far more people modify software, so barring…
Last stated 3 months ago
1 Jun 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-06-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting. — tap to centre the map on it
All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.
Last stated 2 months ago
14 Jul 2026
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2026-07-14 — tap for who they are
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