 Hi, so I'm gonna be sort of in the business of a history lesson And I hope you'll all interact with me as we do this ready when you are so I'm here to talk about the real Sustainability issue in inner source which is not the fact that some companies freeload or freeride and don't pay their dues That's not really a problem. The problem is not knowing how to make the right choices for the future of the movement And so I'm interested in talking about those choices through the lens of history So first of all we won yay us everybody can clap now You might be getting tired of hearing that we won But as somebody who spent the last 20 years talking and at the beginning it was a bit of an echo chamber It's pretty amazing to me so and that means that we have a whole new influx of Recruits people are flooding into the open-source world and they have great Intentions and they're they're excited and they have all the energy that I had 20 years ago And and it's really super good that they're here. However They don't really understand or don't seem to understand this standing on the shoulders of Giants concept There's a lot of I'm in reinventing or I'm taking ownership and I get that impulse But I think this was an important thing so now a Quiz who knows who this is? anybody That is Bill Joy Arguably the first open-source developer He created the BSD project because he thought that he could port Unix to work on a PDP when he was at Cal this one Good job, that's Richard Stallman and you all guys you guys all know what he did Even though we're talking about open-source today It wouldn't exist without the free software movement and without his vision to do that He's kind of our Moses in a way this guy Larry wall Larry wall wrote Pearl Pearl is why Tim O'Reilly got interested in open-source Pearl was the first really diverse open-source community because he wanted to see women take an equal role the first president of his foundation was a woman How about this one? Anybody That is Ian Murdock. He started Debian. Unfortunately. We lost him a couple of years ago now almost two years ago now Brilliant brilliant guy the open doc Open document. I'm sorry the thing that the OSI uses to say whether or not a license is open was sort of his All right, um Brian Bellendorf. You guys know Brian Started a patchy. He was a kid. He was like, why can't we all play together here? How about this one? Anybody that is Mitchell Baker. She was fired from her job by AOL for vetting Changes through the community process. They thought she was the problem She went home dusted herself off and continued to run her project from her house and all of the engineers continued to defer to her Okay, how about this one and why is Tim in here? He made money. We don't like him, right? No For many years Tim hosted meetings and get-togethers and helped us work through our early problems So this is my version of the timeline if you guys saw the keynotes yesterday This is not my resume. This is open-sources resume up to 2000 and if you guys have been down to the OSI booth you have an opportunity to put yourself on this timeline Wherever it is you come in and of course, it's a longer one than when they have one more hero anybody know this guy This is Josh Berkus. He's just a regular guy. He's very involved in Postgres But he's not a luminary like some of the other people But what he is is really brave and what he did is write this post while he was an employee of Sun Microsystems Why was this brave because this was telling Sun they were screwing up You don't have to write any of this down Just look for Josh Berkus destroy and you'll find that blog That's bravery now. We're gonna switch and talk about companies Companies optimized for profit most companies optimized for profit unless it's a b-corp that is optimizing for for Benefit and that's important to you because it helps you understand why they like to massage the message so much Okay, they really really like to massage the message They like to say things that aren't necessarily true One of your jobs as an employee of that company is to call that out It's scary, but it's worth doing even some of our best friends need to hear that from time to time I like Red Hat as a company and I'm really glad that they support this conference But they had to be reminded by the reverse engineering of Their operating system when they stopped posting code changes, right? Personally, I think that open source is already a masterpiece and does not need editing And so coming up with new licenses that force people to pay if they use the code all of that stuff I know for my 20 years that that is wrong I know that open source developers are superheroes and have the power to keep this thing going But the new kids need to know a little bit more and that's why we're doing the open sources three book Which is stories from the trenches of open source that we forgot to write down while we were living them So if you have a good story that you think should be in there by the way This is the gratuitous. You know my boss sent me here kind of thing, but I'm gonna keep talking about the other side Please come to us and tell us that story or write it down at open source calm and we'll find it But we're actively editing stories from now until May into a book that is advice for the trenches. Okay? Thank you very much