Open Source as a Business: Strategy, Struggle & Success

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Open Source as a Business Strategy, Struggle & Success Mad props to Philipp Krenn @xeraa @warkolm

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https://twitter.com/ geowolf/status/ 971811346823221248

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[…] allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. https://opensource.org/licenses @warkolm

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Open Source ≠ Business Model @warkolm

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Open source is a distribution model that allows us to build community. It’s a force multiplier. Shay Banon, Elastic @warkolm

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!”# Where is the ? @warkolm

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Strategy @warkolm

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Services Support, Consulting, Training, Certification @warkolm

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https://investors.redhat.com/~/media/Files/R/Red-Hat-IR/documents/q418-fact-sheet.pdf

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Support Problem Ease of Use @warkolm

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Support Problem Renewal Rates @warkolm

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Consulting & Training Problem Service-Only Competition @warkolm

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Open Core @warkolm

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Problem Competing Tools @warkolm

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Problem Less Open, More Commercial @warkolm

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Problem Cloud Providers @warkolm

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Cloud Service @warkolm

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Problem Cloud Providers @warkolm

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The intent of open source software was not so that someone else can take the exact same software and offer it as a service. Salil Deshpande (Bain Capital), https://www.geekwire.com/2018/might-time-bigcloud-share-wealth-open-source-startups/ @warkolm

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Partnerships @warkolm

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Problem Domain Specific @warkolm

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Donations @warkolm

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Problem Scaling & Planning @warkolm

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Certified Partners @warkolm

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Problem Requires Commercial Ecosystem @warkolm

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Ads @warkolm

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Problem What Is (the Price to Be) Acceptable @warkolm

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Merchandise @warkolm

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Problem Revenue @warkolm

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Bounty / Crowdfunding @warkolm

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Problem Vision & Maintainablility @warkolm

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Struggle @warkolm

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Philosophy @warkolm

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If you are claiming your startup/company is open source and you aren’t contributing to some form of upstream… then you aren’t really. Sorry not sorry. Jessie Frazelle, https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/954802380125736961 @warkolm

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Contributors Users Consumers @warkolm

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[…] If you are MSFT and I ask you if you’ve used Redis and you say “you mean Azure Redis Cache?”, that’s not a good sign. https://twitter.com/jensenharris/status/984268950136537088 @warkolm

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Apache 2 modified with Commons Clause (2018/08) @warkolm

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Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software. https://commonsclause.com @warkolm

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Be aware that the debate starting up about the Common Clause license due to Redis Labs adopting it will likely be heavily tainted by large corporations who have a lot of free labor to lose suddenly pretending to be huge champions of free software ideals. https://twitter.com/taotetek/status/1032248562116186112 @warkolm

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AGPL Server / Apache Clients Server Side Public License (2018/10) @warkolm

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“13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.” “13. Offering the Program as a Service.” https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license @warkolm

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Timing Effective Today @warkolm

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Clones FoundationDB Document Layer Amazon DocumentDB @warkolm

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[…] we are hereby withdrawing the SSPL from OSI consideration. http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019March/003989.html @warkolm

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Money @warkolm

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Conflict of Interest Open Source vs Commercial View @warkolm

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In case you needed proof, @zdatainc just released a #benchmark report where #DataStax6 outperforms #OpenSource #cassandra http:// bit.ly/2txOvWl #databases #data https://twitter.com/DataStax/status/1012380187886055424 @warkolm

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Venture Capital Accelerated Development vs Calling the Shots @warkolm

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Development Hobbled Product vs Starving Company @warkolm

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Commercial Code Open / Visible Code vs Closed Source @warkolm

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Tricks Open Source but… @warkolm

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Success @warkolm

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Business Is Optional @warkolm

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Business Is Complicated @warkolm

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It saddens me that closed source companies are acclaimed for merely putting a piece of code on GitHub, while commercial open source companies get the worse shit for any action that involves protecting their work. Arnaud Porterie (former Docker engine lead), https://twitter.com/icecrime/ status/1032155227368185856 @warkolm

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Time for an Updated Model? @warkolm

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MongoDB seeks to do what the FSF failed to do in 2007: close the “ASP loophole.” That is, to make the GPL (and open source) more relevant to the cloud era by ensuring those that modify and distribute open source as a cloud service contribute back. Matt Asay (former MongoDB VP of Community), https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/ 1052191818937327616 @warkolm