Serendipity

I wrote in the past about how I'm a pessimist that strives for positive outcomes. One of the things that I gradually learned is is wishing others to succeed. That is something that took me a long time to learn. I did not see the value in positive towards other people's success, but there is. There is one thing to be sceptical to a project or...

Most software that exists today does not forget. Creating software that remembers is easy, but designing software that deliberately “forgets” is a bit more complex. By “forgetting,” I don't mean losing data because it wasn’t saved or losing it randomly due to bugs. I'm referring to making a deliberate design decision to discard data at a later...

This year, one of the projects I was involved in at Sentry was the launch of The Open Source Pledge. The idea behind it is simple: companies pledge an amount proportional to the number of developers they employ to fund the Open Source projects they depend on. I have written about this before. Since then, I've had the chance to engage in many...

subtext: in my opinion, and for companies (and their users) that want a good balance between protecting their core business with Open Source ideals. Following up to my thoughts on the case for funding Open Source, there is a second topic I want to discuss in more detail: Open Source and commercialization. As our founder likes to say: Open Source...

Both last week at London tech leaders and this week at the Open Source Summit in Vienna I engaged in various discussions about pledging money to Open Source. At Sentry we have been funding our Open Source dependencies for a few years now and we're trying to encourage others to do the same. It’s not an easy ask, of course. One quite memorable...