OPEN PATH

A Quest for the True Meaning of the Gift of Open Source

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

Open Path is a show about my quest for the true meaning of the gift of Open Source.

Thanks for visiting! 💃

From the Blog

The Open Source Sustainability Crisis

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

Leadership and Power in Open Source

2024-10-14 ❧ Open Source offers a check on power, yet some ways of wielding power are still better than others.

Relicensing and Rug Pulls

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