OSS, Promotions, and Lava Lamps

How can promotion boards be hostile or hurtful to open source technology? We talk about the dynamics of corporate support in open source technology, and if being rewarded for internal work at companies translates into challenges for open source technology. This discussion starts to peel apart what makes open source technology sustainable, and what it works for. We bring up an analogy of a lava lamp where things heat up and then cool down as part of a natural cycle, which can be a normal cycle for all software, and that led us back to how promotion boards work. We covered a lot of ground through the dynamics of corporate software governance and open source and interweaving those together. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/nZS6rtcam88JUuqMctOiEyWq5G4 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/food-cold-drink-glass-5677999/