What Hillel Wayne thinks about open source

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Writer and consultant on formal methods, testing and software correctness, author of Logic for Programmers and Practical TLA+. He ran the Crossover Project, interviewing seventeen people who worked as traditional engineers before becoming software developers, to settle by evidence whether software engineering is engineering.

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1. 29 Jul 2026

   Our readingSoftware is the only field of human labour with practitioner conferences and freely shared knowledge; every other field has only academic conferences and trade shows.

   Their wordsSoftware is kind of unique in having the third kind of the practitioner conference where we are just meeting to get better at what we do. We also are really the only kind to really focus heavily on like open source in making our knowledge freely available.

   ↗Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com 4th of 24 in this recording