The Rise Of Open-Source Software

Open-source software powers nearly all the world’s major companies. This software is freely available, and is developed collaboratively, maintained by a broad network that includes everyone from unpaid volunteers to employees at competing tech companies. Here’s how giving away software for free has proven to be a viable business model.
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The Rise Of Open-Source Software

[@taylorreess435]

3DsMax: 3000$/year Maya : 2145$ /year Blender:Free.

[@jaypatelani]

Yet 3Ds Max don't have MacOS port :D

[@huimoin]

Blender is amazing. It‘s free, it‘s powerful and it‘s lightweight. You can run it on nearly every pc and on every OS.

[@taylorreess435]

as an architect and a vfx artist we ditched every other software and replaced it with blender its user friendly and powerful and community is just hearth worming.

[@pd.dataframe2833]

yup...our studio is switching to blender soon.....excited about it

[@sunilkumar-id5nm]

Blender is awesome 😃

[@Lifeissorich.]

Open-source helps move tech forward quicker.

[@Lifeissorich.]

@Everything everyone can help prevent penetration as well. White hat hackers exist to beef up infrastructure.

[@goosty17]

Everything You can still have protections set up with open source...

[@pcwcol]

​@Everything Absolutely false, Security through obscurity is no security at all

[@gunlook]

@Everything I agree with Rezalion , That which was exploited by hackers get recognized and get paid to become white hats to beef up security. Turning what was once bad into good for others. It's a good article subject to look into. That which was bad, pushes for new learning for those that do which is good and it becomes a war of balance and learning progress for new technologies. Kindal ike AMD vs Nvidia have to up each other on new innovations to keep the market flow good for consumers.

[@joshuapaige8623]

@Everything Take Bitcoin as an example. It's open source software but nobody has been able to penetrate it.

[@vaibhavgupta5741]

Open source is the reason why we have so many startups spawning and releasing their products so quickly. and one of the main reason an undergraduate fresher nowadays start contributing within few days with minimal training.

[@indiancowpissdrinker7151]

tech support

[@neanda]

very true, if software was proprietary, then the barriers to entry would be too high for the regular person (only corporations could innovate, and they don't innovate, they build walls to solidify their position). The world needs fresh ideas, we need the innovators to provide solutions to our many problems, the ones that the corporations and governments don't want to bother with, and open source software is a key enabler in this struggle

[@joejoevt]

It's also why many programmers use Ctrl c Ctrl v so much

[@RaystyleIII]

It's quite inaccurate to suggest that github standardized the way people collaborate on code projects. This credit goes to Linus Torvalds who invented git

[@1pcfred]

Linus didn't invent git, he wrote it. Other collaborative development system models already existed at the time. Linus simply wrote another. Because the one he liked (Bitkeeper) others screwed up Linux using it. They tried cracking the networking protocol it used. which the developer didn't appreciate. So he revoked Linux's use of his code. Which left Linus in a bit of a spot.

[@meteor8076]

SourceForge was first, git is just another version control system

[@SnoopyDoofie]

Without the tools that companies like Github and Google built around git, git would have died. Most developers simply cannot be bothered with arcane commands in a terminal. So yes, Github was probably the major force behind git's adoption.

[@1pcfred]

@@SnoopyDoofie developers who simply cannot be bothered with arcane commands in a terminal really are in the wrong line of work. They can't be too good at their jobs either.

[@coolbuddyshivam]

@@SnoopyDoofie Who are running servers if devs can't be bothered with arcane commands in a terminal?

[@ctothaz]

i'd say 3/4 of the software i use as a data scientist is open source. couldn't imagine why anyone would pay for something like SAS when there's R and Python.

[@dimitriymirovsky]

Yeah. God bless you and everyone supporting open sources

[@hmm2928]

What are some open source software which I could try. I am a beginner in this.

[@PASTRAMIKick]

R is on its way out, never got to use it, only Python for data science and ML stuff.

[@tdurden9532]

I do 98% open source. I've been in the biz for over 40 years, before most of you were in short pants.

[@Quantum789]

Exactly 💯... we wouldn't be chatting on this platform without open source period!

[@japrogramer]

I too wear a hoodie when programming.

[@FactoTrivia]

But you make the most mistakes, am I right?

[@boppe2235]

_watches mr robot once_

[@kornbread5359]

Lol. I once tried making a botnet to find aliens through radiotelecope data. But i couldnt figure out how to run the script.

[@tchitchouan]

HACKERMAN

[@jen_nice2059]

Do you wear flip flops too?

[@ericww32]

This video feels about 10 years late to the party

[@danielm9753]

Make that 20

[@rafaelcomfsemph]

ahhahahahah i liked the intention but i was thinkin "wow, tv discovered open source sotware.... well, is never too light right?"

[@monicahart3071]

Better late than never...

[@ipenguin3918]

Printers are Evil!

[@BiologyIsHot]

MBAs lol

[@axlslak]

Sometimes I feel bad. Because I'm aging. Being 43 is not fun. Not as fun as being 22. But, it is a much better world than when I was born. It's so amazing how many things changed in my life time. The internet was created. And opensource, which, in my opinion is one of the greatest thing humanity ever done.

[@kwasiappiah-kubi7686]

Hey 43 can be better than 22 if you make it. Im 25 and i can guarantee you its about what you make of it

[@axlslak]

@@kwasiappiah-kubi7686 I wish you the best of luck when it's your turn to get old. But know this, NOBODY can beat time. In the entire history of human kind, time is the only constant. Ticking away...

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Most software I use on my computer is either open source or pirated.

[@hildamukami]

haha same here

[@RealShaktimaan]

Everyone should work for free. /s

[@uchenyy6596]

@@RealShaktimaan if u want that start doing it by urself as example

[@SG003]

It doesn't matter where it comes from, it's free that matters

[@RealShaktimaan]

@@uchenyy6596 I'm not pirating software.

[@MarioRafaelM]

I'm so proud of all of us. Open Source became King.

[@DasGrosseFressen]

Meanwhile in the background: big tech companies hording all the money, "yes, you do a great job, here, have a cookie"

[@alexnezhynsky9707]

@@DasGrosseFressen Well, open source drives innovation. We sure all like Gmail, Dropbox, Instagram, etc. They all make tons of money, but we get to enjoy their products. It's a win-win

[@DasGrosseFressen]

@@alexnezhynsky9707 oh, I am definitely not questioning open source, just the economical system it is embedded... I wish these ideas would not only apply to software (or soon hardware). Don't get me wrong, I love it.

[@astrologyfit]

@@DasGrosseFressen Exactly! my comment above shows the way for these sleeping idiots who haven't heard anything otherwise.

[@campkira]

not really.. it also mean it full of hold.. and impossible to keep sercuity... only for something to amusement not important job...

[@llamingo]

Corrections: Richard Stallman did not started the Open Source movement, he started the FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT.

[@Om4r37]

open source software benefits corporations, free software benefits the users

[@WalnutOW]

@@Om4r37 Nonsense

[@Om4r37]

@@WalnutOW corporates love open source software for two reasons: 1. faster development by collaboration 2. to push against free software free software soul purpose & goal is user freedom, I suggest you watch the man himself explaining the difference: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGq8da1jftyar9k

[@elbozo5723]

yeah they said that, and they were correct in stating it inspired it

[@SachaBernasconi]

I started using Linux and open source software 20 years ago, I am really pleased to see how things have evolved!

[@mk_annan22]

Open-Source software developers and programmers are the backbone of today's humanity and humanitarian technology.

[@gavin9715]

Open Source will destroy CS jobs.

[@MuhammadAli-dk6dz]

@Martin Shepherd They will remain unsung under open source.

[@angelgjr1999]

The King of Numbers Nah. Web Development jobs are predicted to grow by a lot in the next decade. And most of the web languages is open source and royalty free.

[@userjff182]

Humanity? Bill doesn’t believe in that.

[@IsaiahGamers]

The King of Numbers NOPE companies will always need custom software that is private

[@MiloTheFirst1]

Open-Source: exists Software development company: wait, that's ilegal Every other company: it's free real state

[@transforgoku]

Every startup*

[@70ME3E]

^don't fall for this. lol

[@GarlicGrinder9]

Also Everyone: nope, it's just as free as the air we breathe

[@RizzoDaManiac]

Software development companies aren’t really effected by open source projects in a negative way. It still takes a software developer to understand & implement open sourced code. Also it takes one to customize it specifically to a clients needs. It actually helps software development companies more than anything.

[@florentbart56]

Software development company are heavily relying on open source software and also release open source code. And it has been the case for a while.

[@jaloveast1k]

I remember how people got scared when Microsoft bought github

[@autohmae]

It's definitely still not over, I think the word isn't scared, it's wary.

[@user-hd6wo7ts4f]

still scared today, who knows what micro$oft is going to do with github, anyway I moved all my projects from GitHub to a locally hosted server

[@ndladis]

I don't like it either...

[@xon2013]

A lot of big projects moved over to GitLab because of this.

[@52.yusrilihsanadinatanegar79]

I think we are safe

[@andrew8293]

Finally, Free Open Source Software getting the media recognition it deserves. It is exciting to see how open collaborative software won. I'm happy to government is open sourcing a lot of code especially that our taxpayer dollars paid for it.

[@bananenmuffin5693]

They are not talking about FOSS btw dont switch things up

[@maximilianovaldes3694]

My printer has no open source, I'll open my company.

[@EliasProbst]

It most likely runs Linux as well - just as most comparable devices nowadays do. Ask its vendor for GPL compliant sources if they're not published on their website.

[@forestriver437]

yeah its actually open software. You have to open up your pc first and remove the RAM stick in order for it to work openly. The RAM is what keeps it closed.

[@chickyperu]

Hahahaha

[@Knee-Lew]

Open-source Printer company!

[@glpinho]

Linux (the kernel) runs pretty much everywhere, even a toaster

[@aly5321]

I liked the video, though I wish Mozilla Firefox was mentioned!

[@gavin9715]

Chrome is much better. And it is OSS.

[@hmmm....1910]

@@gavin9715 brave is much better than chrome. Fast and no ads

[@aly5321]

@@gavin9715 better or not, it's worthy of mentioning since Mozilla's entire mission is about open source and pro-privacy. I doubt every company mentioned in this video makes the "best" products.

[@FactoTrivia]

Why would it?

[@aly5321]

@@FactoTrivia Mozilla is a well respected, non-profit tech company in the industry. Its core values are based upon being open source, among other things. I believe they're typically brought up when this topic is discussed, so it was a little surprising for them to not be mentioned.

[@DominicGo]

I can’t imagine a world where oss doesn’t exist

[@theredtechengineer1480]

Dominic Go I can, a free software world would be even greater.

[@qjtvaddict]

Take a time machine to the 90s

[@brawlgammer4424]

@@SeaJay_Oceans OSS will not die , rest assured. Big Tech Companies profit of it , many of their employees contribute to OSS projects and they enjoy having good quality software without having extra expenses with licensing the software and what not. Will they try to control OSS and make it so they can profit of it even more? Yes , to an extend they are already doing that, but OSS will not die anytime soon.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

@@brawlgammer4424 OSS creators are exactly like the early Music talent : they create, the businesses profit. They work, others gain. OSS is voluntary slavery.

[@GrennKren]

@@SeaJay_Oceans dammit, that f*ing sh!t

[@achong007]

The big problem in programming is the learning curve when you are just getting started. Getting a compiler uses to cost like 1599 or some ungodly amount but they would not sell less than 10 license copy to a kid. All I wanted is a single license. The student version was always limited because you don't need all that function. How to access MS Access using C++ at the time. I made the correct line of code and the student compiler said, "Why do you need to connect to a database?" I'm like trying to f-ing learn here and MS stopped my progress. MS owes me my childhood back. Today, I can get open source, learn, and if I can make a business or get sponsorship, I can do that. I am happy that everything is open-source now. It allows me the freedom to be creative. I only wish is that I can go back to 1990's and be developing at an early age.

[@numanqadri2195]

GNU is the real reason for the rise of opensource software. RMS deserves recognition.

[@kolmercm]

Richard Stallman =RMS 🐐

[@numanqadri2195]

Lenny McLennington I have seen his explanations on the ‘free’ in free software. I will nevertheless watch this video. Thanks.

[@svace4855]

Open source is a corporate term at this point

[@alexnezhynsky9707]

RMS is a hero, so is Linus Torvalds. The world wouldn't be the same without them

[@paulnoecker1202]

Alex Nezhynsky don't forget drobbins heretics...

[@anthonyhoang5902]

Open Source is great! Without Open Source, humankind would have 1000's of software code that does the same exact thing that takes years to build.

[@campkira]

that why you had a lot progrm runing on x86.. ARM or x64

[@openlink9958]

So the open source community started because a printer stopped working... Sounds legit

[@kwamenaplays5899]

Lol typical

[@bened6516]

Honestly, printers are still a big problem, especially ink jet ones and their "software updates".

[@geogmz8277]

It should be titled "What Frustration can do"

[@Lightkie]

That is actually how the GNU project started and kudos to CNBC for including it. That way it's at least indirectly hinted at that everything was open source before Microsoft came along and "The Rise Of Open-Source Software" is actually a resurgence. I don't even mind them conflating Open Source and FOSS, it is meant for non-developers after all, though rms is probably unhappy.

[@77Treasurehunter77]

Sounds like the plot the sequel to office space.

[@user-gi3ql4pu8t]

Open-source software ≠ Free software Also: ... Github ≠ Git

[@yackawaytube]

Gratis or Libre?

[@pangpengmaster]

yeah but... Github ∈ Git

[@70ME3E]

... what a dramatic pause!

[@GarlicGrinder9]

It kinda does. If I get access to something's software open source I can reverse engineer pretty much whatever I want at no cost to me.

[@marcelo55869]

@@GarlicGrinder9 one can be given a software for free (no money) and have no access to the code (closed source). Reverse enginneer of closed source is not easy, it's costly and clumbersome. (Try wine with an application bellow bronze rating to verify yourself) On the other hand. There are apllicatios which allows access to the code under protection of a licence. In some cases one can look at the code but is not allowed to use commercially because of the copyrights. (Is it open source? Not in the way we want! In this case open!= free)

[@VerdigrisTrees]

"Luxury cars" Shows a Kia Seoul

[@Aamie]

Yeah, I noticed that too

[@austinbevis4266]

ATS_ it’s soul

[@Aamie]

He probably mixed the two names because KIA is South Korean and that's their capital so it would make more sense to name it that

[@jairotorres4208]

Mercedes Benz runs Linux and so does Tesla. Kia is just an example.

[@VerdigrisTrees]

@@Aamie Whoa is this the Mandela effect? I swear it was Seoul

[@tripzero0]

Another funding model not discussed here is when companies hire developers to maintain open source software that the company depends on.

[@zad0m]

And how often does this happen .....

[@aravindpallippara1577]

@@zad0m actually pretty frequently for big name projects

[@zad0m]

@@aravindpallippara1577 name 10

[@Somanybot]

@@zad0m linux kernal since basically every compaine use linux even microsoft

[@mandoelpaso]

Never forget Richard Stallman and Linus!

[@HeartBrokenBiker]

Video titled "RISE of Open Source Software" in 2019? It's like you're 15 years behind on this news. 15 YEARS. I was in college when the RISE was happening... was part of few projects & ran FOSS activities in parts of my country. You missed a whole decade where the biggest proprietary software house Microsoft - fought, ridiculed, tried to shut down the whole Open Source movement, and finally now accepts & SELLS open source software as service on their cloud. A whole decade where Chrome browser & Android started from 0 and took over the market. And today, in your video you say "companies like Microsoft contribute heavily to open source" ... What LOL. Please tell me there are more people who've seen foss expand are watching this video and laughing!

[@Membrane556]

They even had SCO as a proxy try to sue them out of existence.

[@1pcfred]

You're 10 years behind. I started running Linux in 1995.

[@jibaritomx]

@@1pcfred I find out about linux in 2000 I have been using since then, good times it was mostly command lines to do stuff...

[@1pcfred]

@@jibaritomx it is still mostly the command line for me to do anything. I do like using cmake-gui sometimes though.

[@autohmae]

Well, it's still on the rise so at least they got that right. :-)

[@adityapandeyias]

Well In my opinion open sourcing of any technology is not only increases it's user base but also increases the chance of further innovation which ultimately helps the global society.

[@gavin9715]

Open Source will destroy CS jobs.

[@adityapandeyias]

@@gavin9715 Not at all. Open source will give opportunity for further innovation and use of that technology to create many other jobs For eg Android is open source. People r learning Android to make their own and app and making dollars with those app

[@kingspammernerd]

@@gavin9715 Many developers are paid specifically to contribute to open source projects. AMD and Intel make open-source graphics drivers for Linux, as well as to develop the kernel and user environments as required. This allows other developers and testers to inspect the code and fix things of necessary. Although not every open source project will accept outside contributions. Sometimes it's only for the sake of transparency. Also, you can disallow forking by licensing it appropriately (not sure).

[@aneeshprasobhan]

@@gavin9715 ok boomer

[@artaway6647]

@@gavin9715 Dude, A lot of tool in CS jobs use open source program lmao

[@dialecticalveganegoist1721]

"The rise of" it has always been there the problem is that there was a huge drive to privatise it.

[@Bittzen]

Intellectual prorperty isn't real, and is a government creation. So whrm Microsoft was calling it unamerican, they were trying to get the gov to regulate it. If anyone has common sense or knows anything about economics, they'd understand regulating this would destroy the service Open source works fine now, why do u want to nationalize it?

[@dialecticalveganegoist1721]

@Brian Rogers completely agree, the same thing should be done to research papers. It is ridiculous that a scientist has to pay for access to cutting edge research, it only slows scientific progress.

[@metallica27796]

Bittzen I agree with that, but the question that comes to my mind is wether not regulating intellectual property would actually take the incentive to produce a better quality software or service.

[@metallica27796]

Maybe we’ll end up with something like Spotify that runs on advertisements in order to prevent this problem. Instead of music, its the software

[@JureRepinc]

That is why it is important to choose a free software license which has strong protections against privatisation, like strong GPL. Unfortunately BSD and other weak licenses do not protect against privatisation and that is whz it is naive to use those. So yeah make sure you use GPL open source.

[@novam101]

No one ever: Reporter: "Microsoft is a leader in the open source space"

[@armorsmith43]

As of the past 5 years, it *really* is.

[@will-ye]

Actually Microsoft has done a U turn and is now fully invested in open source

[@slimestoneexpert9804]

Will Y instead of windows and office with which they make more than half there money

[@mugz2434]

yeah.. It is the highest funder of blender

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Can’t think of any important open-source contributions that they have made. Anybody?

[@PeterMoueza]

A timeline : 2:03 US government 20% 2:29 STALLMAN Richard 3:27 TORVALDS Linus 5:55 Surface like table 6:05 Github Office 6:32 Microsoft buy 140M projects 5:20 monetize 8:30 Red Hat 8:50 IBM 9:24 MongoDB 9:28 MuleSoft 9:44 femme IT 18:30 OpenSSL HeartBeat 11:58 sponsor don t have another job 12:43 senior 12:57 board 13:11 data center 13:32 biology cancer 13:44 bar speech

[@theconceptsinscribed8859]

Does every CNBC video have to start with “the rise of...”?

[@jetlumi848]

Who cares if the content is awesome.

[@CoderShare]

Yes. It's the law.

[@charley7085]

Some of their contents also start with "The fate/fall of...."

[@Misterz3r0]

Yes

[@AvgJane19]

what a small and insignificant thing to have an issue with

[@jonlamp5244]

"Affirming the company's commitment to open source", yeah right!

[@jwillisbarrie]

Thanks for having actual real captions for the Deaf - makes much easier to watch.

[@Bhavishtraders]

as a software engineer and cybersecurity expert, I would like to acknowledge you that there are many loopholes in open source software which can backtrace by the license holding company of that open-source software and can be used by other security agencies.it is for there benefits basically, it's all about the profit. you make a better version of it and you don't even get paid but at same time you used it. basically, companies that hold a license for that software can easily can excess to your source code without your concerns.

[@LouisSubearth]

What I'm taking away from this video is that companies are open sourcing their code so they rely heavily on volunteers to write that software and pocket those earnings.

[@dm2060]

In a way yeah, but everyone can also fork an open source project and build their own thing. So in theory anyone could profit off the labour of volunteers.

[@gavin9715]

Open source will destroy CS jobs.

[@skippersd12]

@@gavin9715 Hardly. There are still some tweaks that a company needs, and if you have something business critical, support is good, in house expertise is better.

[@MuhammadAli-dk6dz]

@@dm2060 The money is still in the commercial sector. So your fork can never compete with the polished software build on opensource. Beside fort too much and now you are no longer taking advantage of the contributions being made to the original branch and good luck merging it and handling ever escalating compatibility issues.

[@dm2060]

@@MuhammadAli-dk6dz not one person's pet project maybe, but a bunch of collaborators can create open source projects that are as good as closed source commercial products. Look at matlab vs scilab vs octave for example.

[@flynn312]

"Put the matrix looking stuff up guys, the cameras are coming"

[@bobsondugnutt7526]

Open-source software will one day be as important as democracy itself.

[@deviantsemicolon618]

It already is. The Linux Kernel can be found in basically everything(except for desktop computers). It’s an extremely important piece of software.

[@dave_riots]

As a novice programmer, open-source software is the biggest blessing since the internet.

[@rghuyx-4tlkg]

Is it just me or did it look like a slight promotional plug for github and microsoft. Not that I have anything against either.

[@hamzhehe5062]

Ramandeep Singh sponsored content

[@lashlarue7924]

@uwu manko Odd, isn't it? But frankly, I'm not unhappy about this (as I would have been 20 years ago). Even Windows is now getting a lot better with security updates, etc.

[@lashlarue7924]

@uwu manko Ja, for me, oddly enough, sometimes I find different OS flavors go better with certain app flavors. Sometimes programs just play nicer with Linux, other times maybe I need a closed-source tool for whatever reason (i.e. home studio recording projects).

[@jamestheotherone742]

Oh this ad... er I mean video would never have been made if MS hadn't bought github.

[@Jarymut]

@@lashlarue7924 You kinda should be unhappy. Or at least curious. Linux is depending on Microsoft, whose biggest product is an operating system.

[@raywei8472]

Apple be like: We don't do that here

[@nobody.123]

Yeah, except for Scripts and Shortcuts, it’s a shame.

[@angelgjr1999]

They claim it’s for security.

[@dontlookatmyusername7939]

@@angelgjr1999 Bullcrap

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

They do moreso in recent years. Swift, WebKit, and Darwin are all open source.

[@uncreativename9936]

if I'm not mistaken, the only non-open source part of MacOS is the DE aqua.

[@blackrevenue8421]

This is amazing. Makes me love humanity all over again. Collaborative environments are always beautiful

[@AussieRail]

One key point missed in this video, was that Torvalds was developing Linux (a kernel without a tool-set) around the same time that Stallman was developing GNU (a tool-set without a kernel). Independently neither project was particularly interesting. What made Open Source EXPLODE, was the realisation that both projects fit hand-in-glove together. People began to create "Distributions" of Linux and GNU as a single unit (GNU/Linux) - Distributions like Red Hat, Suse, Slackware, and others is what really made the Open Source movement take off. None of it would have happened without all three factors meeting at the same time to create the Perfect Storm. Another key point to note: GitHub was built around Git, another of Torvalds' projects, that he wrote to manage the development of the Linux kernel. (Ive used Linux since 1993, First kernel 0.99.6)

[@retn1122]

8:55 he's typing so fast you can't even see the texts move on his screen.

[@Ramxie35]

ReTN lmao

[@retn1122]

Eric Wood then I must investigate... I will hook it up to my 4k monitor and run each frame.

[@userjff182]

He is actually ghost typing, equivalent to air guitar but on a physical keyboard

[@bobbatron808]

@Eric Wood I see it! I had to watch it 10 times too. Now all I hear in my head is, "It was the largest software acquisition in history. It's really groundbreaking..."

[@GabrielEze]

Lol. It's what happen when media touches anything, it look too good to be true 😀

[@Jenkkimie]

As a newcomer Software Engineering student I appreciate open source projects a lot. They are a great way to learn new things about a coding language or how some feature could be done. They help a lot with checking out logic and self-improvement.

[@calebakpomughe6566]

Hey I’m a software engineering student rn , can you help with how I get started in coding

[@speeddemon1104]

What a great video. Thank you very much for covering this topic. It deserves much more attention and you've just given it some. Good job.

[@callmeowen]

Lets go! We Open Source Devs are getting recognized!

[@zeruchofficial]

Before Github there was Sourceforge (before the latter became a joke), and treating Github as if its wholly novel is a bit revisionist.

[@ACrownofFlowers]

Sourceforge was where it was at before it became loaded with ads and malware. 😂

[@AussieRail]

They did seem to give GitHub a lot of undeserved credit. My answer to that is another question:... Who created Git? :)

[@BlownMacTruck]

The workflow in GitHub is completely different from Sourceforge and leverages a ton of the built in Git functionality. If anything, Sourceforge is based around the CVS way of thinking which is hilariously outdated.

[@zeruchofficial]

​@@BlownMacTruck that might be because SF was started in 1999 (using SVN and CVS) before GIT was even around (2004-5). By that point, SF's parent company was a shell of its former self, and the project was far from its original mission.

[@BlownMacTruck]

Joseph Arruda Are you stupid? That was my entire point. Thanks for pointing out the obvious.

[@ScareFestTTV]

Love this channel!

[@ac11dc110]

I've never thought a video of CNBC would be that good, well done.

[@baruchben-david4196]

One significant benefit of open source software is that we've avoided the situation where several companies each build the same or similar products, each with different requirements and features. Instead, a product is developed by many authors. We build on what is already there, instead of each company having to reinvent the wheel. We all benefit.

[@willn8664]

I remember when I was at DeVry Institute back in 1997 - 1999, I learned C++ and Visual Basics. I haven't kept up with any programming languages ever since due to being in the service. They had no programming positions unfortunately so basically I became rusty. Now almost 20 years later there are all these new languages out and I am having a hard time keeping up. I'm using the Sololearn app to brush up on some Python. I'm trying to learn for fun currently. Seems not too hard to pick up.

[@thomasaquinas5262]

I remember 'shareware'. It meant that developers would submit free software upgrades and wait for the generous largesse of users to repay them over time. Well, I met the man who invented the Visicalc cell lines. He put it out as 'shareware' and waited for the money to flow in. I met him at his job, as a clerk at Radio Shack. Shareware, in his case, earned him $33 for that effort...

[@kennstack01]

Richard Stallman is for Free Software Community, not Open Source, as he said years ago. That's a question of Philosophy. Many people confuse

[@abolfazlkhodaygani7019]

richard stallman would be furious watching this piece, it practically shows how much of a paradise the world has become but the reality is, big corps have made open source theirs so everyone can contribute to their projects but no one can make essential independent software that actually works on a modern hardware. you cant make a new OS and install it on your laptop or phone because of drivers, you cant stay anonymous because almost every single important service that you use is some sort of subscription. What Richard Stallman visioned was not just to have access to code, he also wanted it to be free to use elsewhere, anonymous, changeable and deployable however ppl wanted, etc.

[@max392]

Richard Stallman would like a word with you btw kudos for calling GNU an OS

[@stevechrollo8074]

As a Data Scientist and Statistician. Python and R are what I use 90% of the time

[@stevechrollo8074]

5 years including my undergrad work experience in statistics (same thing as data science for 90% of the things)

[@forestriver437]

Do you really want to be mark that bad hahahahahahahahahaha

[@dozieweon]

Thank you to all the people who dedicate their lives so that our experiences can be better.

[@Kaslor1000]

Very high quality and informative video. Thanks!

[@Jake-jy5oh]

Switched to Linux on my home computer last year. I feel so stunted having to work on Windows at work.

[@josehugoelsas8699]

Feel the same, bro. I have been using linux for home and work since 2009, and I had to use windows in my new job since mid last year.

[@aggyz2198]

I too started using linux bout a month ago no regrets

[@1pcfred]

Yeah but you get paid to run Windows.

[@BlownMacTruck]

If you’ve only been using Linux for one year I seriously doubt you’ve gotten so into it that you’ve suddenly felt restrained using Windows or any other operating system.

[@josehugoelsas8699]

@@1pcfred , fair enough :)

[@makinemecku5424]

Microsoft might seam like an open source leader, but they repeatedly refuse to open source the important stuff. For example, instead of their primary IDE Visual Studio, they made open source a Visual Studio Code, not an IDE just a editor.

[@aneeshprasobhan]

:c

[@abm_prottoy]

I believe Visual Studio IDE has some interrelated Windows code. Moreover, It's their default IDE for Windows. Why would they open-source it anyway?

[@adoatero5129]

I think this video is a great presentation of open-source software to the general audience. I'm just a regular guy, not a computer person, but I have used Linux on my PC from the year 2002. First Red Hat, then Debian for a while, and from 2004 to 2018 Ubuntu. No I have settled on Linux Mint. Of course I use a lot of other open-source and free (libre) software too, like Firefox, Gimp, Quod Libet etc.. It has been interesting and fun to follow the spread and rise of open-source software from the modest early times to dominance in many areas. I believe that the spirit of open-source development has had a positive influence on many other areas of life. On the other hand, perhaps the open-source development model itself has also been inspired by some very different areas of life.

[@1mrlee]

This really touches close to heart with the pandemic happening these days.

[@glitchysoup6322]

You should also cover rise of open source (ISAs) (RISC-V) (Which enable open source hardware). Soon cpus will be cheaper, because of more competition and no AMD and Intel duopoly. X86 ISA is licence to print money. ISAs want to be free! Oppressive OS 10 with forced updates and forced invasive telemetry forced me to use GNU/Linux (I use Kubuntu distro). Also, you don't need windows to run windows exclusive games and software on GNU/Linux, thanks to Wine and Steamplay. Thanks, Valve.

[@PASTRAMIKick]

wine is a lifesaver

[@NUCLEARARMAMENT]

I prefer SX, CELL, FR-V, and IA-64. Also GPUs (PowerVR).

[@zarkaztick8973]

2018 Github is bought by Microsoft 2019 MS: We love open source. You should too! 2024 MS: We're going to put a few restrictions. 2025 There are no other competitors. The End.

[@KingAwesomeOutputs]

I agree this is a very valid concern

[@user-hd6wo7ts4f]

this is exactly what is happening, and that's very sad :'-( Micro$oft is cancer !

[@AskJonJong]

you dont really understand, oos is different from regular monopolies. developers can switch easily if they dont like it

[@fhajji]

Actually, I expect that Microsoft will either open-source its OS, or change its NT underbelly to Linux anyway, if it doesn't want to become irrelevant. The danger to open source software could very well loom on the horizon when China takes over the bulk of software development. And no, this isn't your usual anti-China rhetoric of the day: I'm thinking of Huawei's very real attempts to introduce stuff like this as part of the Internet protocols: www.engadget.com/2020-03-30-china-huawei-new-ip-proposal.html More of this, and we may soon face closed-source software blobs as in the bad old days... but this time not from Microsoft and its NDA-partners, but from the IT hardware manufacturers, which would be, of course, from China.

[@calebmullan4593]

It's nice to see some mainstream coverage of open-source.

[@rugbyhaus]

Thanks for putting this together! It gives a good background for non-tech heads.

[@PASTRAMIKick]

G:NU's Not Unix! N:ot U:nix!

[@stephanesonneville]

At start it stood for: "Gee it's Not Unix"

[@aurkom]

Infinite loop

[@RubenKelevra]

GNU is just a *nix

[@BlownMacTruck]

Congrats. You can read Wikipedia.

[@LowestofheDead]

GNU: Recursive Acronyms Get Boring Fast

[@gmt1]

I'd love to learn coding to join these communities, but I don't know what I'd make, and I keep trying to pick up other skills like art or film.

[@lowellcamp3267]

The advantages of OSS are pretty clear, when done right: on proprietary software, you have access to the combined expertise of your team. In OSS, you have access to the combined expertise of everyone you can get interested enough to contribute to the thing that you’re making. The trick is getting smart people interested, and having a core team robust enough to act as quality control and have the ability to make patches when issues are found.

[@geistreichtube]

3:02 - I like the fact that Coldplay's Chris Martin works on open-source software now.

[@boondocksripoff2237]

We would be doomed if oss didn’t exist

[@charley7085]

I'm a simple man I see a CNBC video, I click. I want to learn about stuffs. Gain perspectives. Keep posting CNBC. Great contents🔥

[@quentintaylor1016]

an eye opening video thanks!!

[@OliverMorales]

Very Goog Video CNBC, Very goog, Grettings from Nicaragua.

[@shikari94]

So I see you're running Gnome. You know I'm actually on KDE myself.

[@mechanikate]

KDE PLASMA FTW

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

I run both GNOME and Plasma.

[@diegomarquez3293]

@@mechanikate kde is so big and fatty and bloated

[@killertigergaming6762]

@@diegomarquez3293 you probably use gnome ya hypocrite

[@penguin1714]

Microsoft, a leader in open source... LOL

[@Membrane556]

I was thinking the same go ask them for the source code for Windows 10 or the Xbox firmware and see what happens.

[@afiqfikridaud9417]

MS open source for their .NET Core, C#, Typescript, etc.

[@jonathanzopf6444]

@@afiqfikridaud9417 Because they had to. Software developers highly value whether a programming language is open source or not. Microsoft needed to open the source of their development tools so they can grow in popularity. However, ask the average Windows 10 user if having an open source operating system is important to them. 95% of users will say no. They don't need this, they don't want this. And this is why Microsoft won't open the source of the XBox firmware, office or windows. They know exactly that they are doing. Most people just dont care.

[@suruzuddin]

@@jonathanzopf6444 MS was pressured by Open Source developer. Who wants to pay for open air.

[@meteor8076]

really funny

[@steveraddant3455]

I remember seeing 'share ware' etc in malls......Microcrude took care of that...but it lives on to fill a gap they never did.....respect

[@omegaman1409]

I have used it for decades. Saved me some money in the long run.

[@SuubUWU]

EDIT: I tried to correct the "Gah-new" pronunciation and I was wrong. The software purposely has the hard "G" sound.

[@SuubUWU]

@@warrick_lo Now that's an interesting link!!! Well I'm happy to say I stand corrected, thanks for the post.

[@FeoRache]

>Chad >Recognizes his mistake you're doing something wrong

[@arijip]

NO to hoarding, A BIG YES to sharing 💕

[@monicahart3071]

Very informative. Thank you! Yes, we can make a difference.

[@faizalabidin3512]

To all the Open Source Software Developers, Thank you so much.

[@unconnected]

@CNBC - Confused as to why you interviewed the Director of Engineering but not the Director of OPEN SOURCE at Google. They literally have an entire department dedicated to this topic

[@neoncity1557]

availability issue probably.

[@unconnected]

@@neoncity1557 I would put money on that he wasn't even asked or had any idea this video was being made

[@rithvikgujjula1400]

well there are multiple Director of Engineering people for one department.

[@DrLeePhD]

A $60 raspberry pi 4 computer about the size of a deck of cards can run linux, minecraft, web browsers, email, or even a basic web or ftp server. You can plug in a regular USB keyboard, mouse, and a hdmi monitor. If you'd like to play with linux it's a really great way to get started.

[@tyrrelldavis9919]

I've been wanting to make something like that. I need something to use as a dedicated web server. Also, say I'm running MERN stack (Mysql, express , react, node) AND an instance of XAMPP (php, mysql) I would have two instances of Mysql, is it ok to have two instances of Mysql? I see alot of instructions, to just run one on the regular port (3306) and the other on another port (3307, 3308, whatever) Point being.... Is it ok to run these 2 stacks together? Do people run express MERN Along with apache XAMPP at the same time? Is it normal? Is it ok ? Best practices? Alot of ajax tutorials have people installing both of these, but that is for the tutorial and concepts sake. Is it ok to run both of these in the real world ? Assuming I'm going to run apps on prod on both.

[@glitchysoup6322]

Don't forget Blender. I dissagree. If you want to try GNU/Linux, do NOT start with raspberry Pi. It is not even powerful enought to run Android propertly, let alone full OS with multi tab webrowsing. It will give bad first impression. If you want to try, try Kubuntu on main PC without installing it (Live ISO).

[@neanda]

These CNBC documentaries are actually startlingly informative and accurate (correct me I'm wrong), from such a mainstream news site, these are very good videos for the mainstream to know

[@epocfeal]

AN AWESOME DESERVED OVERVIEW! FINALLY!

[@FlyingEbi]

I actually enjoyed a 14 minute video from a news channel... Am I a boomer?

[@LowestofheDead]

I think you're okay

[@shentot6]

@@LowestofheDead he is okay boomer, then?

[@kornbread5359]

Victor Gutierrez LOOOOOL

[@ArulinETheKirin]

Am I the only one to see this as Corporation propaganda and trying to glorify Microsoft and Google as the faces of Open Source? It makes me want to puke.

[@user-ux2kk5vp7m]

Qoostewin Sch'Kuen'Te same here man

[@Hakou4Life]

ehmm no, i think they wanted to privatise it, so no1 else can use it for free.

[@ArulinETheKirin]

@@Hakou4Life Many are seeing that as well. Microsoft, Nvidia, and a number of other corporations have been trying to put the genie back in the bottle. Yet you are wrong on saying they are not trying to become the faces of open and free software so they can privatize it.

[@djd34d14]

All of this ^^^^^

[@dv9239]

Whatever it's just easy money for students and also really helpful

[@thehonestabe]

the software engineering community is one of the most helpful communities!

[@mihailazar2487]

Open-source is an idea SO POWERFUL it's right up there with the scientific method. The biggest multi-disciplinary paradigm of this era.

[@encrypt3dbr0k3r]

Bitcoin, Monero and Steem. These projects are decentralized, open source and highly disruptive software projects.

[@jeffelkensaw1573]

Steem is awesome i make about 10 dollars in Bitcoin per day using it just posting content and crypto news

[@explosives101]

Steem is not decentralized.

[@user-hd6wo7ts4f]

yes, cryptocurrency/blockchain is amazing, and most of these technologies are built using Open Source !

[@terrancebanh4741]

Microsoft is an open source leader I cannot trust

[@mzs114]

It is not, it is a for profit org, masking itself to make profit.

[@CoderShare]

Well luckily that's the point of open source. To make their software more trustworthy. It's almost like you're missing the point.🤔

[@Fabian-_-]

Jep, they're just going open source a bit to not lose people. Everyone thinks that it's awesome that they open source all their stuff, but noone knows that the main things are still really proprietary. Like Windows...

[@rohith9439]

Azure forced them to embrace it haha

[@shugaku2461]

embrace extend extinguish

[@jeremylittle3454]

This is awesome content to be on a mainstream news organization

[@amandabrock2600]

Nice introduction, with a decent nod to paying the maintainers.

[@erzascarlet347]

Open-source went from free sharing to big companies using thousands of programmers to fix their a applications for free. Big tech loves free labor.

[@CassandraBankson]

*In the future, not knowing how to code will be today's equivalent of not knowing how to read.*

[@HollowHill17]

coding is just input and output statements... not a language like English and Mandarin...

[@blucereal]

no it wont, it will be how it has always been. programmers will build tools, other people will use those tools to make more tools or art or whatever. the "everyone should learn to code" trope is stupid

[@jhngrc_]

Nah, that's too much of an overreach. You don't need to know how to code to be a doctor, lawyer, teacher, salesman, engineer, politician and the tens of thousands of jobs in between.

[@forestriver437]

@K.D.P. Ross No its just detailed instructions to possibly the dumbest thing to ever exist a computer.

[@forestriver437]

@@jhngrc_ all those jobs rely on some sort of technology which had to be developed by code =)

[@trustme2001]

This really warms my heart.

[@geistreichtube]

A massive *Thank You* for your world-changing idealism and pragmatism!