{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenewstack.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fwhat-open-source-really-means-today-xzm4jypY","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"What Open Source Really Means Today","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5672b5/5672b58f-7201-4e0e-b0af-da702259d97f/f0b631c4-f0ba-483e-90d8-b3733aeb2633/avatars-000115856938-s0r47h-original.png","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/f0b631c4-f0ba-483e-90d8-b3733aeb2633\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"What Open Source Really Means Today\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"The state of open source over the course of the past few decades has certainly changed. But IBM”s purchase of Red Hat and the evolution of service-oriented business models that have emerged more recent]y not withstanding, open source’s original spirit of sharing remains intact — while the extent to which that is the case remains a subject of debate.\n\nWhat open source really means today and how it has evolved were major themes of a podcast Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, recently hosted at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle. \n\nAmong the open source thought leaders on hand to offer their observations were:\n\n- Alex Ellis, Senior Staff Engineer (open source), VMware;\n- Jason Dobies, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat;\n- Ed Warnicke, Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems and Technical Steering Committee chair, FD.io \n- Heather Kirksey, Vice President, Community and Ecosystem, The Linux Foundation\n\nWatch on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/hGrgzUz-Rfg"}