Open is the way (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.”

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Featuring:

• Joseph Jacks – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• OSS Capital
• Changelog Interviews #320: Venture capital meets commercial OSS
• Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more
• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Era
• Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
• Just realized that I’ve led 37 rounds of funding at incorporation where OSS Capital was the first investor on the cap table…
• Silicon Valley! Jian Yang’s New Pied Piper scene

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Chapters

1. Welcome to The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Socket (00:01:26)

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3. It's been too long! (00:04:15)

4. OSS Capital: The Untold Story (00:05:09)

5. JJ created KubeCon (00:15:28)

6. KubeCon vs CubeCon (00:16:23)

7. JJ's thesis (00:18:11)

8. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:26:05)

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9. Cloning to COSS (00:29:44)

10. Making money from COSS (00:42:09)

11. Changing the license (Rug pull, not cool.) (00:49:10)

12. Meta, I know VR. (00:58:18)

13. Zuck's hair (00:59:28)

14. Sponsor: Test Double (01:01:27)

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15. Sponsor: Intel Innovation 2024 (01:04:17)

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16. Why so generous, Meta? (01:05:51)

17. Did JJ make Adam a believer? (01:14:03)

18. The importance of energy consumption (01:21:53)

19. You're a fan of "Open Core," right? (01:25:43)

20. Is funding in open source flawed? (01:37:09)

21. TTG (time to go) (01:44:49)

22. "Capitalism is philanthropy" (01:45:17)

23. Closing thoughts (and stuff) (01:46:16)