OPEN PATH

A Quest for the Meaning 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 quest for the meaning of Open Source.

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From the Blog

Spitting Out the Agentic Kool-Aid

2026-02-19 ❧ Tasting the future of invasive AI agents roused me to pursue a different direction.

Open Source Offers Hope Against Tyranny

2026-01-27 ❧ Leaders like Poul-Henning Kamp, Alex Blokh, and Kailash Nadh show us the future we can have.

OSI Really Did Initiate Open Source

2025-12-19 ❧ Despite some outliers, “open source” did not meaningfully exist as a concept before 1998.
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