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The Economics of Open Source
- yarapavan 7y agoThis JSConf EU 2019 talk by C J Silverio tells a story about who owns the Javascript language commons, how we got into the situation that the language commons is by someone, and why we need to change it. Abstract: The JS package commons is in the hands of a for-profit entity. We trust npm with our shared code, but we have no way to hold npm accountable for its behavior. A trust-based system cannot function without accountability, but somebody still has to pay for the servers. How did we get here, and what should JavaScript do now? Transcript: https://2019.jsconf.eu/c-j-silverio/the-economics-of-open-source.html https://2019.jsconf.eu/c-j-silverio/the-economics-of-open-so...