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	Podcast:		Modern Web
	Episode:		The Future of Open Source: Funding, Sustainability, and the Open Source Pledge
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:39:39
	Publish Date:		2025-02-05 15:24:11
	Description:		In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, host Rob Ocel, along with co-hosts Adam Rackis and Danny Thompson, explores the sustainability of open source with Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry. Chad discusses the Open Source Pledge, an initiative encouraging companies to fund the open source projects they rely on. He breaks down the challenges maintainers face, the imbalance between corporate benefit and community support, and why businesses need to step up. The conversation touches on alternative funding models, the history of open source licensing, and the push to make sustainability a core part of the industry.
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