Nobody likes being rugpulled. But lately, it's going around like a virus.

Why are so many former open source darlings selling out or relicensing? And is there anything you can do to fight back against these anti-open-source practices?

Resources I mentioned in this video:

  - IBM's $6.4b HashiCorp Purchase: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ibm-buy-hashicorp-64-billion-deal-expand-cloud-software-2024-04-24/
  - Hacker News comments on IBM and HashiCorp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135490
  - HashiCorp meme: https://twitter.com/jgunnink/status/1783303926042996928
  - Redis' new licensing: https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
  - My article on Red Hat's license changes: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux
  - Article on Hashicorp and other license changes: https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-abandons-open-source-for-business-source-license/
  - OpenTofu fork announcement: https://opentofu.org/blog/the-opentofu-fork-is-now-available/
  - Redis fork battle: https://www.thestack.technology/battle-of-the-redis-forks-begins/
  - Everybody hates the Redis forking mess: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/redis-license-change-and-forking-are-a-mess-that-everybody-can-feel-bad-about/
  - Redka SQLite Redis not-fork: https://github.com/nalgeon/redka
  - OpenELA press release: https://www.suse.com/news/OpenELA-for-a-Collaborative-and-Open-Future/
  - IBM job cuts in marketing and communications: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/ibm-tells-employees-of-job-cuts-in-marketing-and-communications.html
  - Shouting in the datacenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
  - Fork Yeah! Bryan Cantrill's presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
  - Drew DeVault's blog post on CLAs: https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html
  - GNU - 'Open Source misses the point': https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

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Contents:

00:00 - What happened
00:34 - The rot sets in
02:01 - The year open source dies
02:47 - CLAs considered toxic
03:52 - Free vs open
04:31 - Opportunity knocks
05:48 - Freeloaders