Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist community that actually produces it. The conversation reveals this isn’t a new problem, but a long-standing reality whose consequences for security, stability, and the future of software we are only now beginning to truly confront. Episode Links# This episode is also available as a podcast, search for “Open Source Security” on your favorite podcast player. VIDEO I usually write a summary for these discussions. In this instance, that isn’t going to work. Instead I’m including the transcript of the discussion. There is too much nuance and information to properly give a summary. Josh Bressers (00:00) Today, open source security welcomes back to Thomas DePierre, one of my favorite people to talk about open source. So Thomas, welcome back to the show, man. Thomas Depierre (00:08) Hey Josh, thanks. Well, I mean, thank you for inviting me back. ⁓ I love talking with you about this too. And I love listening to you. Yeah, I need to welcome you to this. don’t know why. I mean, in my house, right? I mean, my house, I welcome you in my house, kind of too, right? Now that we do this stuff remotely and not in a studio. Josh Bressers (00:15) You did technically invite yourself. Yeah. Good. No. So, Thomas reached out and you wrote a blog post ironically on April 1st, which makes it even funnier. But on April Fool’s day, you let me, let me zoom up. You, have a, uh, uh, 2024. Oh, holy crap. It’s, it is that old. Oh my goodness. It feels like it was not that old, but it’s been, it’s been a crazy year, but, but the title is you are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now. Thomas Depierre (00:31) Miracle. Okay. Yeah… I think it was last year actually. Yeah… Yeah, I’m old. We are old. Josh Bressers (01:00) And I feel like this is where it’s alw...
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