Maintaining a local fork of an open source project is like maintaining an illusion. It only gives momentarily control and becomes expensive to keep up over time. Have you experienced that already?
This My Open Source Experience podcast episode evolves around this topic and explores why and how to invest in open source projects, including how to pick which ones to rely on, what to consider when setting up your organizational structure, and why avoid maintaining local forks.
- Austen Bryan covers the benefits of relying on OSS projects, and how to pick the right ones.
- Samson Goddy talks about why roles like Developer Relations don't belong in the marketing department
- Greg Kroah-Hartman shares why you don't want to maintain a local fork
- Federico Gonzalez Waite talks about educating people about open source and guiding a large organization through an open source transition
- Michael Dexter shares his thoughts and experience with regulations, patents. copyright laws and how they've been affecting software development and the FOSS movement
- Tom Sadler shares the benefits of investing in upstream work, and why maintaining a local fork turned out to be a bad idea for his company
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