Block011 - What Is Open Source and Why It Matters to Bitcoin?

In Block011 of The Bitcoin Journey, Tim & CJ discuss what Open Source means, how it came about and how it relates to Bitcoin. 

They discuss:

• The definition of Free Open Source Software (FOSS)
• The history of how open source came to be
• OSS licences and their effect on the ecosystem
• Should proprietry code even exist!?
• Some case studies of OSS projects
• How to get find and view OSS (for beginners)

Some of resources used/mentioned in this discussion:

• The Open Source Institute - opensource.org
• The Free Software Foundation - fsf.org
• The bitcoin source code on Github
• Citadel Dispatch episode discussing licenses
• @BTCGandalf's thread on learning to contribute to bitcoin

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