Open Path

by Chad Whitacre

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Greetings! My name is Chad Whitacre, and I'm Head of Open Source at Sentry.

Open Path is a blog about topics that matter to the Open Source community, the wider tech industry, and society at large.

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The Future of FOSS Foundations

2024-04-26 ❧ With new EU legislation, Open Source foundations are growing up fast. Where are we headed?

Open Source Is a Restaurant

2024-04-05 ❧ It was a great meal. Are we going to pay the tab?

A Vision for Software Commons

2024-04-04 ❧ Imagine an indie Open Source contingent thriving alongside our corporations and governments.

Fair Source <> Software Commons

2024-04-01 ❧ Fair Source is about licensing. Software Commons is about funding. Let's do both ... separately.

Relicensing and Rug Pulls

2024-03-21 ❧ If a viable fork materializes, relicensing was a rug pull. If not, it wasn't ... and that's kinda sad.

The Case for an Institution

2024-03-05 ❧ Software Commons is a great name. But for what? It should be an institution.

Towards Software Commons

2024-02-22 ❧ The world is ready for something beyond Open Source. Is it Software Commons?

Funding the Five Thousand

2024-02-05 ❧ We can solve the OSS sustainability crisis for less than $1 billion, priced to cost.

Questioning “The Value of Open Source Software”

2024-01-25 ❧ The new HBS working paper seems fundamentally flawed to me, though it has some helpful parts.

The Open Source Sustainability Crisis

2024-01-19 ❧ What is Open Source sustainability? Fair pay, no hoops. Why is it in crisis? Burnout.
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