Is the Future of Open Source Polarized?
There has been a lot of turmoil in the open source ecosystem of late. Many well-known projects have abandoned their open source licenses because of sustainability concerns, free-rider problems, and cloud competition.
You might be wondering: Is open source as we know it dead?
In this presentation, Percona Founder Peter Zaitsev will explain how the future of open source is polarized. In his view, some projects will remain true to the open source ethos and focus on the public benefit; others will adopt an 'open source in name only' approach, driven primarily by profit maximization and shareholder interests.
The only question is: when?
Peter Zaitsev, Percona Founder
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on open source strategy and databases optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. Now Peter continues as a Board Member & Advisor in a range of open source startups. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.