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# The Future of Open Source


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 11:40–12:10 (30 min)
- **Room:** Main Stage (5,000)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1124-the-future-of-open-source)

## Description

How to make the source code of everything available to everyone

When working on GitButler, we faced a common issue in the modern startup world. Open source the product or keep it closed and competitively safe? In a world of more developers growing up on open source, but also seeing source licensing and usage disputes like Hashicorp and Redis, how can a startup engage with it’s community like an Open Source project, yet protect itself from bad actors?

This talk will explore the history of the Free Software and Open Source movements, the sea change in these communities that GitHub ushered in, the licensing options that companies like GitButler are adopting to try to bridge these issues, the future of Open Source software and how to make the source code of everything available to everyone.

## Speaker

### [Scott Chacon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@scott-chacon)



## Related talks at this congress

- [Open Source Secure Software Supply Chain in action](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/127-open-source-secure) — Natale Vinto
- [Open Source: The Engine of Innovation in the Digital Age](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/347-open-source-the) — Ankit Patel, Ivan Burazin, Jo Franchetti, Maxim Fateev
- [Open sourcing a library: how hard can that be?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/128-open-sourcing-a) — Johan Hutting
- [Startup Presentation: IoT consumer healthcare - The world is yours](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/97-startup-presentation) — Sebastian Sternemann