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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent “open source meets business” drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.

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Featuring:

• Adam Jacob – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc.
• Matt Asay on OpenTofu
• System Initiative

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Cloudflare (00:00:38)

https://www.cloudflare.com/developerweek

3. News Flash! IBM buys HashiCorp (00:02:55)

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-04-24-IBM-to-Acquire-HashiCorp-Inc-Creating-a-Comprehensive-End-to-End-Hybrid-Cloud-Platform

4. F words & Friends (00:03:54)

5. Vacations cause drama (00:04:24)

6. Matt Asay's article (00:05:14)

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork.html

7. Products vs projects (00:18:18)

8. Sponsor: imgproxy (00:22:31)

https://imgproxy.net/

9. Business model math (00:25:59)

10. Linkerd vs HashiCorp (00:35:20)

11. Eric Raymond (00:37:31)

12. Mojo bags & a rubber chicken (00:38:19)

13. An alternate HashiCorp path (00:39:02)

14. Putting the hippie side back in (00:48:22)

15. OpenTofu's odds (00:57:38)

16. Sponsor: Sentry (01:06:45)

https://sentry.io/

17. System Init checkup (01:08:08)

https://www.systeminit.com

18. System Init disrupt (01:09:47)

19. TypeScript? No! (01:14:01)

20. System Init v Dagger (01:17:43)

21. System Init priorities (01:21:43)

22. System Init audience (01:25:24)

23. System init ready? (01:29:31)

24. Steal this model! (01:30:54)

25. Heavy metal recs (01:32:17)

26. Bill Joel starts a fire (01:34:49)

27. Bye friends! (01:39:44)

28. Coming up next (join ++!) (01:41:08)

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