Benny Vasquez

And so I saw open source pledge, this OSS pledge, to be an extension of that, but more with an awareness piece to it. Because it was hard. It was like you were pushing this uphill battle to say companies should have an OSS fund, which is a great thing to say. But then it was like, well, how do we do it? Whereas this, yeah, the FOSS fund. Thank you for clarifying.

I saw it as like an extension of that, but potentially better marketable, you know, and potentially with this social component that is not so much a force multiplier, but more like you should because this is where people who are doing this and believe in this model are collecting. Whereas the other way it was more like... soapbox, you know?

Whereas here, you're sorta like, what was it, Hands Across America, like back in the 80s, remember that? It's more like that, you know? Like, hand in hand across America feeding, I think it was The Hunger, something like that.

Well, so this... There's no vetting and verification, right?

Well, whoever would put out a blog post saying you funded open source and you didn't fund open source... I made a face, by the way. It was not a good face. Well, there is.

Right. If you would go through the motion of saying, I pledge, I blog, and that blog was non-factual.

I mean, big time, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So... Yeah. Receipts. And so I joked about the JSON earlier, and you never closed the loop. Yeah, what's the JSON deal? What's the JSON? There is... Let's close the loop of the JSON. I forgot all about it.

They do get a JSON, though, because when they go through the flow, they generate the JSON file for them. Who does?

OpenSourcePledge.com.

Early days. Yeah.

Well, good stuff. Yeah.

So let's wave a magic wand.

Okay?

Put it here down right now. All right. How much time you got? Three minutes?

Three minutes. Okay, he's got less than three minutes to wave this magic wand. It is, pick your number of years from now.

One, two, five, whatever. What's the goal? What do you want to, like, what would be best case scenario? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

All right. Thanks, Chad. Thanks, guys. Okay, to the many people we saw in the hallway at All Things Open, well, hey, it's good to see you. We met a lot of people who were there on the coupon code we gave out, the free one in most cases, and in some cases, the discounted version. And that's so cool. Lots and lots of listeners of the changelog at this conference. And that that's even cooler.

So this anthology episode covered lots of stuff. The state of enterprise Linux, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Alma, Rocky. The list is long. We cover T.XYZ, this new protocol that may give value back, may give rewards back to open source maintainers. That's cool.

And of course, opensourcepledge.com and Chad's work and David Kramer's hard work on this from Century to support open source maintainers to find ways to find models for for organizations and teams to adhere to so they can give back so they can do the right thing and to support their open source that they're using. And that's cool too. Lots of cool stuff.