you have not yourself bothered to attach a LN to your SNs account

nunya business

to clean the slop by hand;

nah, it's taking way too long; fifteen minutes, and I didn't even finish seven minutes of his talk:

I have 59 slides in less than 50 minutes, so I'm going to talk a little bit fast. my name is Joe Brockmire. some of you may know me. I currently work for LWN.NET. I am not speaking for LWN.NET. I want to make that very clear, so this is why I'm not wearing an LWN shirt, so nobody mistakes my opinions for those of the publication.

today what I'm going to be talking about is the gilded age of open source and why it's over. and so some content warnings since everybody loves content warnings these days. there are going to be a couple of things in here that I figure I should warn the audience about ahead of time. First is politics. reading the LWN comments there's always somebody who's like "I don't like politics in open source" and my first thought is you have entirely missed the point of open source and the second thing is it is whether you like politics or not [applause] it's coming for you so like it doesn't matter if you like it you know so you all get it this could be I know I'm in Europe I am from the US I'm sorry.

when I talk about the historical bits, it's going to be a little bit, US- centric when I talk about the US gilded age because that's my knowledge and interest. there were things happened in Europe at the same time too, but I'm not going to cover many of them.

No AI was used in this presentation, [applause] I know there are AI boosters here and I may offend you a little bit and I'm not sorry. so just so you know, I'm using some some loose analogies in this talk, okay? So, I know we're all nerds here, right? And we like to poke holes in things and get into the logic of them. I'm just trying to draw some pictures here.

think of this talk almost as like a game of Pictionary. I'm trying to get some ideas into people's heads. I'm not going to say that everything that I draw an analogy from is literal. and also there may be cat pictures. so all right. So what we're going to cover, I'm going to talk very quickly about what the gilded age was in the United States. Some of you may may be history buffs, some of you may not. I'll go through a little bit of that. I'm going to talk about open sources gilded age. I'm going to draw some comparisons there. I am not a historian, nor do I play one on TV, but this is sort of my attempt to nail down a period that could probably be revised. I'm also going to talk about the end of the Gilded Age for FOSS and maybe what might come next.

this is a quote often attributed to Mark Twain that I really like. It's history does not repeat itself but it does rhyme meaning that things come in cycles and things happen very similarly but it's not exactly the same anytime but if you look at history and I do enjoy I'm an amateur historian, as I get older I enjoy reading history more also I notice I have more history to look back on that I remember.

when I was a kid I got a C in history and my dad complained. He said, "I never got a C in history." I said, "Yeah, but there was so much less of it when you were my age." [applause] but anyway, we don't really know that Mark Twain said this. There is no documentation to prove that he actually said it, but he said a lot of things, so let's go ahead and give him the credit. But he definitely co-wrote a book called The Gilded Age that historians then applied that label to a historical period. Now the Gilded Age book was about the you know gilded means that something is maybe like lightly covered in gold. It's not gold all the way through. It's basically a veneer. It's a fake kind of. and the novel touched on basically how from his point of view things looked great from certain angles in the United States, but from others they look pretty bad. and I would like to say that this talk sprang into mind because of my deep literary and historical knowledge, but it didn't. It came from a TV show.

so there's a show on HBO some of you may be familiar with called The Guilded Age, and it talks about the historical gilded or, you know, covers that period. and I watched this with my wife, and there's some of the people in the show are real. Some of the events historically are real, and then some of it's fictionalized. And there's a fictional robber baron who's portrayed kind of sympathetically. he's having a conversation with other robber barons about strike breaking, labor breaking, and they're talking about how to do that. And I'm like, that's starting to sound really uncomfortably familiar. and then they have other parts and episodes that are about stock market crashes and things like that. I'm like, boy, I've seen those before. so it started making me think how before I was even asked to submit a talk, started to make me think how the last 20 years plus has been kind of a guilded age of open source. So the gilded age in the United States period between the late 1870s and 90s I doubly have to explain that now since I lived through the 70s and 90s this last century, and it's a period between reconstruction, in other words, the end of the civil war, and then the progressive era in the United States. It was a time of rapid expansion, especially the railroads. And there are a lot of parallels to me at least, between the railroad expansion in the United States and the expansion of the internet later on.