Sponsored by Reblaze, creators of Curiefense Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Brian J. Fox Show Notes Hello and welcome to Committing to Cloud Native Podcast! It’s the podcast by Reblaze where we talk about the confluence of Cloud Native and Open Source. Today, we have an amazing guest with a long history of open source in the space and that is the legendary Brian J. Fox, who is the Co-Founder of Orchid, a blockchain company that started in 2017. Also, he created the Bash Shell and he was the first employee of the Free Software Foundation. Brian shares the story of how he ended up at FSF, his thoughts on the success of Bash after all these years, which includes running on Mars currently. We learn everything he did before he Co-Founded Orchid, he tells us all about Orchid and how it works, his thoughts on the open source movement and where he sees it going, and more about the value of cloud companies. We also find out Brian is a bassist in a band, so if you want to find out more go ahead and download this episode now! [00:01:51 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=111)] Brian tells us how he ended up at the FSF. [00:05:08 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=308)] Justin wonders if Brian thought Bash would still be around and he tells us it’s running on Mars in the helicopter. [00:07:08 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=428)] Richard brings up that Bash is on Windows and asks Brian to talk about how that happened and what his reaction was. [00:09:00 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=540)] At some point Brian left FSF and went to Orchid, and Richard wonders how that started. Brian fills us in on all the things he did in between FSF and Orchid. [00:14:01 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=841)] We learn how Orchid works and its physical infrastructure. [00:18:51 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=1131)] Brian tells us about the protocol being strictly peer to peer, and he explains more about the Orchid network and the bandwidth. [00:22:11 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=1331)] Justin asks if Brian still seeds or if he has enough users where it’s just kind of self-sustaining. Brian mentions OXT which is the name of the Orchid cryptocurrency. [00:23:36 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=1416)] Richard is curious and wants to know what Brian thinks about open source as a movement in the last two or three years, where does he think it’s going, and how does he think he’s leveraging that in Orchid in as best a way possible to make sure the success of the system that he’s building. [00:27:57 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=1677)] We find out from Brian that he’s all about problem solving and the architecture that goes into the problem solving and it’s about the expression. [00:29:40 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=1780)] How does Brian thread the line between being an open source diehard and I run a capitalist firm. [00:32:33 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=1953)] Justin does a U-turn to the conversation and goes back to the VPN industry and wants to know Brian’s thoughts on the current market of traditional VPN’s that are not crypto powered. [00:33:33 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=2013)] Brian tells us how he deals with requests from law enforcement agencies. [00:35:54 (https://podcast.curiefense.io/22?t=2154)] We end with Brian telling us where you can find him online, he tells us about his band Chillpoint that you should checkout, and he leaves us with thoughts on cloud companies not going away. Links Curiefense (https://www.curiefense.io/) Curiefense Twitter (https://twitter.com/curiefense?lang=en) Curiefense Blog (https://www.curiefense.io/blog) Cloud Native Community Groups-Curifense (https://community.cncf.io/curiefense/) community@curiefense.io (mailto:community@curiefense.io) Reblaze (https://www.reblaze.com/) Justin Dorfman Twitter (https://twitter.com/jdorfman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) jdorfman@curiefense.io (mailto:jdorfman@curiefense.io) podcast@curiefense.io (mailto:podcast@curiefense.io) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?lang=en) Tzury Bar Yochay Twitter (https://twitter.com/tzury?lang=en) Brian J. Fox Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjhanfox/) Brian J. Fox Twitter (https://twitter.com/brianjfox) Chillpoint Band (https://chillpointband.com/) Bash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)) GNU Bash (https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) Free Software Foundation (https://www.fsf.org/) Orchid (https://www.orchid.com/) Orchid OXT (https://www.coindesk.com/price/orchid) nixCraft (https://bash.cyberciti.biz/) Credits Executive Produced by Tzury Bar Yochay (https://twitter.com/tzury) Produced by Justin Dorfman (https://www.justindorfman.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Transcript by Layten Pryce (https://www.fiverr.com/misstranscript) Transcript [00:01...
