This has been a slow week, was debating whether to even ship one out. YOLO

Links

Slack is neither open, nor open source. Why use it here?

from the SustainOSS Design & UX working group

Ask HN: How to get competitors to use our open source interop-protocol?

Interesting discussion. Can you add your 2 cents?

What is the right amount to give away?

"We just finished recording a new episode of the Sustain podcast. A question that came up was: for companies that profit off of open source software, how much should they giveaway/donate to the dependencies they rely on…"

Podcasts

Josh Montgomery and the Patent Trolls

"Josh Montgomery, co-founder of Mycroft AI, joins us to talk about creating an open source voice assistant, and to talk in-depth about patents, patent trolls, and how they are unsustainable in the long term."

Videos

No videos this week. Send me some! =)