Salil Deshpande

Salil Deshpande Contributor Salil Deshpande serves as the managing director of Bain Capital Ventures. He focuses on infrastructure software and open source. More posts by this contributor The crusade against open-source abuse Commons Clause stops open-source abuse

Salil Deshpande serves as the managing director of Bain Capital Ventures. He focuses on infrastructure software and open source.

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Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses

Cloud infrastructure providers -- such as Amazon -- continue to pose an existential threat to the future of open source.

The crusade against open-source abuse

There’s a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers threatens the viability of open source. Thankfully, several leaders have mobilized to propose multiple solutions.

Commons Clause stops open-source abuse

There’s a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers, such as Amazon, threatens the viability of open source.

Let’s define “container-native”

There should be a new definition for container-native that aims to better represent the magnitude of impact that containers will have on software development and operations.

After the Satoshi Roundtable, is there a way to bridge the bitcoin divide?

The opposing views of those advocating for preserving the current implementation of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core), and those who believe that the block size needs to be increased immediately to overcome scal

The Holy Grail of Web Scale

With customers demanding access to goods and services where and when they want, and servers deluged with requests, concurrency and expectations of responsiveness, organizations of all types are focuse