VM "Vicky" Brasseur talks open source and free software. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet.

Show Notes:

• Book: Forge Your Future with Open Source

• Patreon: VM (Vicky) Brasseur is creating writings & talks, supporting free & open source software

• Some free and open source software mentioned in this episode:

  • Linux

  • Firefox

  • Blender

  • Godot

  • Debian

• Copyleft was mentioned at least once.

• Paper: Open Source Archetypes (PDF) by James Vasile and Karl Fogel

• Utility is a concept brought from time to time in EconTalk, one of my favorite podcasts.

• In this episode, VM discusses Microsoft’s patents. This episode was recorded BEFORE the announcement from Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network. (This is one of the reasons I like to say the date of the recording at the top of every episode). I did not reach out to VM to get any further comment on this event.

• Redis licensing changes. We had an extended discussion about Redis licensing that I cut just due to time constraints, but definitely reach out to VM if you have questions!

• Something else that happened since this podcast was recorded: MongoDB made a license change. I think it’s similar to Redis’s change, but I’m not entirely sure.

• Book: Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel

• OpenSource.ORG and OpenSource.COM

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