Aaron Tan
The world of open source is undergoing significant transformation, moving away from its roots in individual developer contributions to become increasingly dominated by technology companies. This shift brings opportunities and challenges, as the motivations and priorities of these corporations can sometimes clash with the ethos of open collaboration.
Take the move by HashiCorp last August to transition from the Mozilla Public Licence to the more restrictive, “source-available” Business Source Licence for future releases of Terraform, a popular infrastructure-as-code tool. The decision rattled the community, prompting the creation of OpenTofu, a community-driven fork of Terraform.
In a wide-ranging interview with Computer Weekly on the sidelines of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit in Hong Kong, Chris Aniszczyk, chief technology officer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), talks up the challenges of navigating the global open source landscape, future directions at the CNCF and the motivations behind the surge of open source projects emerging from China.
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