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Another great example of positive impact of open sourcing. They open sourced unreal engine some time ago, thanks to that we see 92 changes from community alone
by lossolo 11y ago
Another great example of positive impact of open sourcing. They open sourced unreal engine some time ago, thanks to that we see 92 changes from community alone in this release.
- brador 11y agoIt's open source with a pay x% once you get big enough to make $y thousand a year. It's proven effective and I hope more open sourcers copy the business model. Imagine if Mozilla was supported like this instead of being paid for customer data. It would be a game changer.
- mrec 11y agoWhat would be the browser equivalent of "once you get big enough to make $y thousand a year"?
- brador 11y agoX number of employees? The principle of the model is make em pay once they can afford it. So having X employees would usually mean the company can afford to pay say $10 per employee per year to use it.
- TrevorJ 11y agoI understand what you are getting at, but that particular example sounds like a great way to convince companies to adopt a 'no OSS software on work machines' policy.
- brador 11y agoAnd what else would they use? You have regular paid software, or OSS software that scales with your business at a reasonable price. I know which i'd take.
- Mizza 11y agoMozilla cares about software freedom.
- brador 11y agoMozilla cares about serving their paymaster. Right now that's Yahoo through search integration. Under this scalable model it will be users.