Open Source Software has a funding problem.

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00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor : 100$ credit on your Linux or gaming server 01:56 Open Source doesn't mean "free of charge" 03:51 The Web runs on Free and Open Source Software 05:35 LOG4J, Faker and Colors 08:25 Who needs to pay? 10:56 The status quo isn't sustainable 12:13 150€ off your next ultrabook! 12:34 Support the channel

A lot of people assume that open source, or free software is free of charge, but while that's generally the case, it's not an obligation.

This ends up with a paradox: user facing software that has a GUI and is used by regular users tends to have easier access to funding than server-side libraries that are used by giant companies that make billions each year, because basic users will part more easily with their cash, one dollar at a time, than a company that doesn't really know what they use to make their own stuff work.

And this brings us to the second major point of the video: the modern web is heavily dependent on free and open source software.

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Linux isn't the only open source project underpinning the web. For a long while, the default stack for a server was LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. All open source projects. It's less true nowadays, with tons of new technologies being used to replace these various components, but most of these new technologies are open source.

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