In this episode we speak to Joseph Jacks, founder and general partner at OSS Capital, a venture fund specializing in open source software. We discuss why open source is such an important differentiator for all software development, the philosophy behind open source, open core, and building a community around open source software, whether open source should be the default for all software.

About Joseph Jacks

Joseph Jacks is founder and general partner at OSS Capital, a fund that invests in Open Source projects. Previously, he was co-founder and VP of Technology Strategy of Kismatic which provided services for running Kubernetes at scale for enterprises. It was one of the top 0.01% of projects on GitHub and was acquired by Apprenda in May 2016.

Jacks also founded the KubeAcademy, the parent organization of the official Kubernetes community conference KubeCon, and was the co-Founder and CEO of Aljabr which builds cloud-native data pipelines.

Other things mentioned:

• OSS capital
• GitHub
• SourceForge
• Signal
• Richard Stallman
• Satoshi Nakamoto
• Linus Torvalds
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Red Hat
• Rode
• Sony A600

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Recorded: 2022-04-04.