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Alright, morning. Let's roll. My name's Justin. 


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A fun fact, I get paid by the tweet. 
So if you follow me on twitter and say hello I'd love that,

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or if you want to drop me a long form line you can reach me: hello at testdouble.com.

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Open source, is good, right.

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Companies working with competitors, 
other companies on common tools,

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and then turning around and sharing that for free.

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Startups, now they can stand on the 
shoulders of giants, and build great new

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things with just adding a little code on 
top -- companies that couldn't exist otherwise.

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And then never before in the history of
the universe has an individual that's not

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state-sponsored or company sponsored been
able to just do a little work of their own

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And then literally change how the world works.

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But is open source good, really?

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I mean, companies love consuming open
source, but if you ever want to share an

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upstream patch, much less open source a
library, they suddenly are very stingy and

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skeptical of this open source thing.

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And then a lot of startups keep falling
into the same trap of hoovering up all

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this free stuff, without understanding how
it works, and building maintainability

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nightmares, right as they get successful,
they can't add new features any more.

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And most of the maintainers I know are
pretty burnt out, right?

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LIke, they don't like the fact that 
they're doing something for fun, in their

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free time, companies are running on that
stuff and then expecting customer support

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you know, on nights and weekends.

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So today, my goal is just to bring to
light a handful of issues affecting

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open source, and my only objective here is
to encourage you to do the same thing.

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Because maybe if we can start to build a 
broader awareness of some of the

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systemic issues in open source, we can 
start to have ideas how to fix them

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and then maybe someone will come along,
start to create new creative solutions for

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those things. And then we can, you know,
start to live and realize the promise of

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true, openness, whatever that means. 
And then we're done.

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But again, today -- very little, minor, just
looking at a handful of things.

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Topics, such as dependencies.

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Pulling back the curtain a bit, to show
what it's like to be a maintainer

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issues of trust, adoption, security

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and then some deep thoughts about how we
interact with each other as humans, as well

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as where I think the future is heading.

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I like to start off with term definition. 
The word "ideology" -- most of us think

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of the word "ideology" as like a political
subscription or affiliation, what you

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believe. But I like this definition more:

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They do not know it, but they are doing it.

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Ideology as the negative space that's
driving our actions without us even

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realizing it. It's a quote from a dude
named Karl Marx.

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Open source fans are a bunch of hippies,
so I figured I'd start with a Marx quote.

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That comes from the book Capital, and
Capital is an interesting book because it

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as a work, it sits at the intersection
between philosophy and economics.

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I think it's an interesting subject to
start with today because so does open

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source, right? We share all this code
altruistically, as if to earn karma from

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people we don't know, and yet there's all
these companies out there making

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bucket loads of money off of open source,
and every company that even doesn't

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contribute open source needs it to get by.

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So, thinking of capital and traditional 
economies, I want to look chart the

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march of progress of economics. You know,
in the beginning, everything was shitty,

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Then as groups of people started to form

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This opened the door to the development of human culture

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The internet totally inverted that

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This is progress

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but where does it lead us?

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Before you click one-click

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Another example of unintended consequences

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For like, at least a month