Welcome to Life, Tech and Beyond, I am your Host Aditya, back again with a second episode where we are going to talk about:

What would happen in a world without Open Source Software?
How Open Source Software are re-inveting software developement and technology in general?
How they are a part of daily lives and impacting us by providing us the ability to do mundane task such as checking our bank balances through our mobile phones, book a ticket to anyplace or to even place an order from Amazon or Flipkart?
What would happen if suddenly everything open sourced disappeared? What would be the future of the open source software?

All these questions makes me curious enough to know that what would the world be like today if there was no Open Source Software.
All these questions about Internet, Open Source Software and the technology that are driven and even possible by open sourced software would be discussed in this second episode of Life Tech and Beyond with my new guest Nancy Chauhan.
She is a software engineer and herself is a avid open source contributor and has contributed to many open source projects. She was also a part of the Google Summer of Code 2019 and has contributed to many open source projects ranging from OpenRISC, LibreCores, and FuseSoC. She has graduated as Electronics and Communiation Engineer from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Una.

Question Discussed:

According to you, how ubiquitous Open Source software has become in every aspect of our lives? And what do you think would happen in a world without Open source software?
Why would a company want to open source something?
How some companies can make open source as their business?
How do these open source software makes money?
Generally if somebody has put in some effort in some project/code/application then why would somebody want to make it open source?
Why Open Source Software like Hadoop, Apache Spark, Databricks and some known OSS like (Apache Airflow|Airbnb), (Kubernetes|Google) are backed by big companies initially? Why there is no broad adoption of OSS from other small sized companies since OSS has a lot of potential?
How viable is Open Source software as a business model?
Initially, a tech giant like Mircosoft used to criticize Open Source softwares like Libre Office and Linux, but just recently 2 years back Microsoft bought the popular version controlling webiste Github which is one of the faces of Open Source Source software nowadays?
Is open source software reliable and secure? As majority of companies use some pieces of Open Source Code in thier proprietary softwares that more than half of the population in the world uses without even knowing? Such as iOS and Android phones utlises UNIX based kernels. So what are you thoughts upon the privacy of people using appliaction and software using OSS, that can be easily exploite as these snippets of OSS are freely available.
What is better? Transparency about what you use or the security of what you use?

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