Welcome to syntax. Today we have a great one. We have the latest member of the syntax team, Chad Whitaker, on this show here to talk all about open source. He's an open source expert of sorts, and he is going to really fill us in about what licenses you should use. Why are people so mad on the internet about open source sometimes

and uh... you know just in general about

yeah just in general about the topic so chad first of all

welcome to the syntax team and welcome to syntax

thanks scintax thanks god thanks west uh... happy to be on the team and excited to

join you guys for this episode.

Right on, right on. So you want to give us a quick rundown. You're not new to Century or Open Source at all.

No, sir. You have a bit of history with open source. You want to give us a quick rundown of that whole story and what it is that you do?

Accidental. Open source as a movement bit. A book rundown of that whole story and what it is that you do? Accidental. Open source as a movement started in 1998.

I graduated from college in late 99 and started a career as a programmer in around then, 2000.

And so I just kind of grew up as a, you know, as a programmer with open source, didn't really

appreciate until years later that it like hadn't always existed. But yeah, long history

with open source really got involved in Python, in like the Python community, in the

aughts. You know, so these days it's Django, right? It's Django and it's Flask or like the big web frameworks.

And there's some newer ones coming out.

But back in the 2000s, everybody had a Python web framework.

We had these web framework shootouts and all this stuff.

There was like 20 different Python web frameworks.

So I kind of participated in that.

I had, I think it was like the fifth most downloaded Python web framework in 2008 or something

like this.

Anyway, yeah.

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