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So, please join me in welcoming Adi Gerard.

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Adi is going to be closing us out today with her presentation become a hero.

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And Adi has no bio.

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Okay, well then I'm just going to talk about nice things I know about Adi.

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So, Adi and I met a couple of years ago at an open source event in Ireland and

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became well-quainted and fast friends for many reasons.

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She is an expert in inner source marketing and communications and she has recently started

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a new role as an open source program office lead for a medical device startup.

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And I will leave it to Adi to say other amazing things about herself as she wishes to do so.

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So, I'm going to hand the mic over to you.

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You should say great things about you because there are many.

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And then we're going to do the traditional, its form, its past, its past, its past, its past.

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You'll form a welcome with flaws and invite our speaker to continue from her.

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How are you?

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Great.

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Thank you Leslie.

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I'm excited to be in the community room and talk to you guys about becoming a hero.

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So, who here has read, so crashed by Neil Stevenson, show of hands.

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Okay?

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Good.

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If you have it, it's okay.

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I will do my best to describe the scenarios and characters.

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I highly recommend it.

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It's a cyberpunk classic and it's super, super fun.

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And so, when I was reading show crash, I was struck by some similarities between

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our scenario today and open source.

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And I believe that open source as a practice is at a crossroads.

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A very significant one that will determine whether or not

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and how open source will proceed in the future.

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And so, I'm going to use examples from so crash and also from history to try and illuminate

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that.

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The main character in the story so crash is hero protagonist, which is a nod to Joseph Campbell's

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book from 1949 entitled, a hero with a thousand faces.

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And in it, he talks about the hero's journey.

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A hero's journey includes transformations.

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It includes challenges, but ultimately what it does is it brings back a benefit to the entire

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community.

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And of course, an open source.

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We know exactly what that is because we're here because of the heroes before us.

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So, let's take a moment and look at where we come from.

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We know that in the 1940s and 50s, software collaboration was open and free and people

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were just talking about different ideas and there was a lot of excitement around it.

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And then something changed.

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Companies began selling machines and software became business.

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There was money to be made.

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And so, what was what's freely talked about and looked at became ported by companies.

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And this is where we meet our first hero, Richard Stomen.

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Richard Stomen was an MIT programmer.

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And he had a vision for the future that we could have free software.

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That was his vision.

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And so, with that, he launched the GNU project.

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And his motivation, when you ask him about it, was he wanted to reinvent

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a cooperative spirit among computer users.

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And I think that that is a very, very important thing for us to consider today

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as well as in our future.

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He launched the GNU project and then in 85 he released the bulletin,

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which contained the four freedoms of software.

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Sure, you all know them, but we'll just repeat him for the sake.

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The freedom to run the program for any purpose.

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The freedom to study, modify the program.

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The freedom to distribute, redistribute copies.

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The freedom to redistribute modified versions.

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Right? Those four freedoms of the principles for open source,

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to open software.

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Free software, open source.

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Right? Those are the principles.

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That's why we exist.

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And it was an exciting time, right?

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The freedom software foundation created licenses that protected free software.

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Companies started doing patents, so they could hold it.

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Very lively moment.

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And they realized really quickly they needed an operating system.

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And so, the young finished student minus,

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who, as we know, contributed the Linux kernel to the world.

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Huge moment, right? Huge moment for free software.

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And so, the struggle continued.

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They wanted companies to start doing this.

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And so, they needed more heroes.

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So, people came out of the woodwork.

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Right? They had, did these Cooper at Sun System,

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who fought on the inside of an organization

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to tell them about the principles of free software.

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Right? She eventually started the hospital

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that helped corporations have a structure

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that helped them understand what is free software.

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And why is it valuable to us as a company?

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Huge work, right?

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Simon Fipps continued that work.

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Who's read the Cathedral in the Bazaar?

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Big moment, Eric Raymond and Bruce Piers,

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co-founded the open source initiative.

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That organization, that institution in our world,

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is fundamental and has been fighting for the rights of open source

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for as long as this practice has been alive.

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It's wonderful, right?

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But they weren't alone.

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Free software was really not palpable to business owners.

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They couldn't free software. This doesn't work.

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And so, Tim O'Reilly and others gathered together in California

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and they discussed rebranding.

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That's the term open source came onto the scene, right?

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Another big moment where companies were like,

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hey, you know what? This could work.

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We can use this.

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Michelle Baker, right?

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The release of the NetScape Browsing Code,

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huge pivotal moment.

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Brian Bellendorf and the original eight,

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the Apache Way, all of these heroes and many more fought

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to bring us to today.

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And where is open source today, right?

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Open source is in open code is in 97% of code bases.

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80% of code bases have between 1 to 200 open source

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dependencies. According to a study in Harvard,

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the demand side value of open source is 8.8 trillion.

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For the last couple of years at the United Nations,

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leaders around the globe for open source and

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osmos have been discussing how osmos and open source

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is critical to driving forward the sustainable development goals

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that will help the world.

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Open source is on the global stage.

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That's where we're at.

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And do you know why?

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Do you know why we're on the global stage?

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Because we've created something valuable.

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Incredibly valuable.

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And when you create something valuable,

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the powers that be take interest.

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Take interest.

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Let's go into Snowcrash for a minute.

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When you hear, when you look at the environment in Snowcrash,

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they talk about the streets being franchiseed owned.

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Do you know what that means?

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It means a couple of really powerful people owned streets.

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In fact, in that story, there is Mr. Lee Hong Kong,

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who owns franchises.

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There is Uncle Enzo, who's the head of the mafia,

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and he also owns franchises.

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You have Baudel Reich, who's a telecommunications mogul,

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and he owns the technical infrastructure of the world in Snowcrash.

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They own the spaces.

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The communities are fragmented into birdclaves,

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which basically create their own rule of law,

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and it sits a pretty chaotic place.

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At the beginning of the story,

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we meet Hero,

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and he is a pizza delivery guy.

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He works for Uncle Enzo.

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And he is trying to get a pizza to a destination on time.

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And as he does that, things go awry.

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Lots of things.

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One thing, after another thing,

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after another thing, and everything he tries,

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he's not able to get that pizza there on time.

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It eventually crashes the car.

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Right?

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Can't not get there.

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No wonder what he does.

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I think there's some parallels to that,

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because open source, free software,

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has had struggles since the beginning.

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We have had lurking challenges

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that we have not addressed,

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that are problems in our practice.

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And over the years, they have compounded.

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Let's talk about them.

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Who here, personally, has experienced burnout

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or no someone who has?

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Raise your hand.

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Nobody who has?

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Keep your hands up.

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Let's take it around the room.

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What we call this is a systemic problem.

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And think about across this university,

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and across the globe,

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how many other people would have their hands up to.

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Do you know how you solve sustainability?

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You have people to support your project,

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and you have money.

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That's how you solve sustainability.

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Nobody wants another XZ Utilis instance.

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Another working problem that we have

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is security risks and dependencies.

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Dependency vulnerabilities.

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I hope you've read the sign-ups,

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2024 report.

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If you haven't, I'm going to go through a couple of data points for you right now.

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88% of hardware and semi-conductor industries contain

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high-risk open source vulnerabilities.

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87% of manufacturing, industrial, and robotics industries

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contain high-risk open source vulnerabilities.

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67% of AI, B-I, ML, big data contain high-risk open source vulnerabilities.

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And the shocking fact is that at the time of those vulnerable component downloads,

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96% of them have a safer alternative.

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Nobody wants another heart-bleed moment,

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or a log J for J moment.

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Nobody wants that, right?

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We get a bad rep for that.

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This is a problem.

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And of course, we're all familiar with the corporate issue

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where by people come, they take the code,

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they use the code, and they contribute.

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Nothing back, right?

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Nothing financial, they don't give their time,

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they don't donate bug solutions, nothing.

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And so, when you look at that,

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and you look at where open source is today,

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we've created kind of a digital commons,

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a tragedy of the commons of sorts.

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Not exactly, but sort of.

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I'll give you a couple of other examples.

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How many of you have seen a company say,

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we are open source?

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And they're not.

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Right?

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I know.

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I've seen it.

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They're not open source.

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And as a consequence of some of these problems,

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you see articles where they say,

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you know what?

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You shouldn't use open source.

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It's not secure.

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It's not compliance.

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Could be in a brass situation.

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You have to go with commercial.

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You just can't use it.

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Right?

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That doesn't help us.

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That's not what we want to have happened.

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And what sad is.

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It's kind of true.

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So, Oström won a Nobel Prize for her work in 1990,

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for something called governing the commons.

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And she postulated that there are three ways

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to prevent this situation.

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Number one, community management.

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Work here.

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So we'll move past.

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Privateization.

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Obviously, we're not for that one.

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Can anyone guess the third?

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Regulation.

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The European Union has just created the CRA.

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The Cyber Resiliency Act is going to change

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the way open source is practiced.

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There are now four areas of requirements

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that we are going to have to adjust.

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Documentation.

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Risk assessments.

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Conformity assessments.

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And vulnerability reporting within 24 hours

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of finding that vulnerability.

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Open source isn't staying the way it has been.

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Those who are non-compliant

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could be fined up to 15 million euro.

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Open source is changing.

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And how that regulation is put into effect

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will impact what happens to open source.

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In Snowcrash, the bad guy, Bob Rife,

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he pushes this virus called Snowcrash.

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And he pushes it out because he wants power to control.

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It's what he wants.

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And he pushes it out to the people

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who could or would fight back.

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That's who he goes after.

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The GDP of the globe is 110 trillion.

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It's 110 trillion.

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The value, the demand side of open source,

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is 8.8 trillion.

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That's a pretty valuable asset.

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And the person who gets to control that.

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That's a lot of power in it.

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That's a lot of power.

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I think we're in a place where we need to ask ourselves

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what can we do?

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And I suggest there are four things.

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One, when people say something is open source,

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please don't say, no, it's not.

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Please.

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Everyone in this room understands what open source is.

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We are the advocates for that practice.

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You know who doesn't know what open source is?

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The entire globe.

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No, they're not open source.

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Does not help the world understand what we practice

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or what we fight for on a daily basis.

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You know what does?

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You know what?

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That's not open source.

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Let me tell you why.

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They do XYZ.

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Open source is ABC.

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Herein lies the problem.

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And see it pleasantly.

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So people want to talk to you about it.

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Right?

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The second thing that we need is we have to communicate

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the value of open source better.

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And I think we need to start communicating that value

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especially within corporations.

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Now, there are a couple of organizations that do that really

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really well and help equip people to do it.

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In our source commons is one of them.

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The two-due group is another one.

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But unless we are able to express why open source

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is something they should do, we might lose ground.

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We might lose ground.

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Number three.

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We have to advocate and start working

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at collecting the value of our contribution

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and distributing that back to those people

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who are doing the work,

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the maintainers, and the contributors.

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There are several organizations that do a very good job

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of this open collective.

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And I'll net the sovereign tech fund.

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Is it enough?

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Absolutely not.

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But it's a start.

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And we need to do more of it.

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We need to do more of it.

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Because we have a fiscal problem.

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Lastly, we have to engage in policy and regulation.

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Half-two.

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Regulation is not going to slow down or stop.

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It's going to speed up.

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We have to engage with the policy makers.

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And I'm excited to say that the open regulatory compliance

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working group, that the eclipse foundation

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is hosting, welcomes people to join and talk about that.

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And they are engaging with policy makers.

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That happened on Thursday.

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On Friday, the open forum Europe had a policy summit

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where they got together with the policy makers and the open source.

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And they started talking.

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We have to have this dialogue.

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Other organizations that are great for this

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is yoga.

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Open solutions for government.

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Right?

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Teach the government why they should adopt open source solutions

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as opposed to the alternative.

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Help them get on board with that.

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There are a couple of historical stories.

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I want to tell really quickly in my last couple minutes.

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And a couple of historical references that I think are applicable.

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As a globe, we faced COVID.

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And the medical professionals and practitioners and equipment makers

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are very highly proprietary group.

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And they couldn't really innovate.

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And they didn't really work together to make sure

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that the populist was OK.

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And as a consequence, a lot of people did not do so well.

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It was a very tough time.

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Now, a lot of medical people made a lot of money.

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But we didn't come together to solve that challenge that we faced.

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Right?

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I worked for an organization that was in Biotech.

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And I'm really excited because we are open sourcing technology that will enable people to

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detect the transmission of disease through breath.

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And it's open source, which means everyone in the globe can take this and be able to

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decide and determine whether or not they've been exposed.

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That's a big deal.

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You know how you fight a virus?

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You have to know where it is.

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Because new ones come up and it's a risk.

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There was a...

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In the 1700s, there was a situation that's a lot like this.

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And I want to talk to you about it.

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I want to introduce to you a gentleman, a young war chief,

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by the name of Takamsa.

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Takamsa was a war chief for the Great Shawnee Nation.

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And the Great Shawnee Nation had a problem.

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They had this beautiful hunting ground.

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Beautiful, lush, rich with resources.

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It was their home.

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They respected it, and they protected it.

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It was wonderful.

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And just like anything of value, somebody came and they said,

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you know what?

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We'd like to take that.

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So the Shawnee Nation got together and they asked themselves,

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what do we do?

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It's powerful entity is coming and they're going to take it from us.

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What do we do?

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And to comes and stood up, and he said this,

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any child can snap with ease the single hair of a horse's tail.

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But not the strongest man nor the wildestalian can break the woven hair

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that makes a rope.

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The ending for the Shawnee Nation is a sad one.

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You see, they didn't come together.

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And that powerful entity pushed them out,

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and they ended up on a reservation where they were told what they could do,

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and how they could do it, and where they could do it.

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The lesson of to come, sir, was that he went out,

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not just to his own tribe, but to all the tribes.

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He went to the Cherokee, and he went to the Chippewa,

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and he went to the Delaware, and he went to all of them,

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to tell them, we must become the rope.

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The rope that can withstand the powerful who have come to take away

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what is precious and sacred.

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That which creates freedom and sustains those things which are good.

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And in this time, we, too, each one of you and all of us together

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must become like to come to our own community and to our own tribe.

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We must stand for the freedoms.

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We must stand for the freedoms.

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So that, in the generosity of that spirit,

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the good things of open source can continue on.

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Because in the absence of that spirit,

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there is only a desire for profit and control,

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and the ends and the consequences of that is paying and suffering

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as we've learned today.

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And so I say to each of you,

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we must now.

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Now is the time for us all to become the hero.

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And that is my speech. Thank you very much.