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Great interview with a lot of good advice for anyone starting their own OSS-based business. Making EE "open source" (not "Open Source") is a brave move but I t
by mperham 10y ago
Great interview with a lot of good advice for anyone starting their own OSS-based business.
Making EE "open source" (not "Open Source") is a brave move but I think anyone who's done this work before knows that having the source available for viewing doesn't really matter much to actual customers with money - a packaged solution with long-term support and legal compliance are their main concerns.
- sytse 10y agoThanks for the kind words Mike and thanks for Sidekiq, we use it extensively in GitLab. We decided to package GitLab Community Edition to make it very quick to install. So our open source users get the same easy installation and the same security updates and our Enterprise Edition customers. We find that large enterprises are interested in some of the features https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare and not in any of the other things. Maybe the best example is a user if China with more than 6000 developers that decided to copy the code of some features over to the Community Edition. This is illegal if you don't have a subscription but I think it shows that the features do matter. Our policy is to put features that are more useful if you have more than 100 users in the Enterprise Edition https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship