Upstream 2024 | Welcome to Upstream 2024: Unusual ideas to solve the usual problems
A recent Harvard Business Review study found that open source is worth $8.8 trillion. To put that in perspective, the US interstate highway system is valued at only $742 billion and the entire U.S. electrical grid is valued at only $1.5 – 2 trillion. So, in a world where open source has become one of the most valuable pieces of infrastructure we have, why is open source health and security still not a solved problem? In the wake of the recent xz utils hack, where an unpaid and underappreciated open source maintainer was taken advantage of by an extremely sophisticated hacker, Luis Villa will use this opening talk to make the case that our current way of “fixing” open source health and security is simply not working, and that we need to explore new ideas that match the value of what we’ve created. We’ll surface some of the best ideas we’ve heard through the course of the day.
by Tidelift
linux foundation
