In this episode of The New Stack’s On the Road show at Open Source Summit in Austin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/myonk/, Head of Open Source at https://www.percona.com, shared his thoughts on how economic uncertainty could affect the open source ecosystem. So what role does the economy play in whether or not open source software is contributed to, downloaded and used in production? “Generally, open source is considered a bit recession-proof,” Yonkovit said.

“I think the big differentiator for a lot of people in the open source space is going to be the communities,” Yonkovit said.

If you look back at the history of open source, Yonkovit said, it’s about people having an idea that inspires other people to contribute to make it a reality.

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