The problem with Sodipodi, as Gould related in an interview, wasn’t architectural - it was community, or rather, the lack thereof. Gould has a long history in systems engineering, but became well-known in open source circles due to his pioneering design work on the Ubuntu desktop.
Take Sodipodi, an open source vector graphics project that Ted Gould and others forked to create Inkscape. In some ways a fork suggests open source is functioning as it should in other ways, it’s a clear indication that an open source project has failed. You can follow him on Twitter freedom to fork may well be the cardinal rule of open source, as open source luminary Brian Behlendorf once asserted, but forking is not an action that gets taken lightly.
Matt is a principal at AWS and has been involved in open source and all that it enables (cloud, machine learning, data infrastructure, mobile, etc.) for nearly two decades, working for a variety of open source companies and writing regularly for InfoWorld and TechRepublic.
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