How to Successfully Argue for Open Source Investment

We can establish that if you are using any (semi-)modern digital infrastructure or applications, then you are depending on open source software. Have you ever thought about that as actual dependency? Considering that you are not neglecting the building blocks of the software solutions that you are creating and selling, why do you do that with your open source dependencies?

Learn more about why you have to invest in open source projects and how to decide what level of involvement you should have in each from Stephen Walli.

Find out what drives companies to open source projects that started out as InnerSource, without the intention to open them up to the world later, and what happens when you don't let your developers work on open source projects anymore from Clare Dillon.

Learn how to explain open source involvement to people who are fearful and sceptical about it from Wayne Starr. And listen to Wayne and Stephen to talk about how they and their companies are using SBOMs, and why you need to think more about using those for packages that you need to build, or hardware, before you apply the concept.

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