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When you say "everything else just pales" do you mean that licenses/subscriptions are the only viable options to make sure you don't go out of business, or are
by kklimonda 8y ago
When you say "everything else just pales" do you mean that licenses/subscriptions are the only viable options to make sure you don't go out of business, or are they the only option to justify multi-billion evaluations and multi-million investment rounds?
- lifeisstillgood 8y agoyou can do good lifestyle businesses with just being an OSS developer and reasonable businesses doing support services. But at some point scale matters - stack it high and sell it cheap is the usual scale model IRL. But support services almost always falls down on the first client that means every other client gets the solution for free and you lose the profit making side of selling the same thing multiple times. OSS really does break most business assumptions. I think it is good for society as a whole - i think for example Linux has added billions or maybe trillions to the world economy - but capturing that might reduce the benefits to society as a whole. So long answer short - Inwoukdmlike to see evidence that long term OSS can support businesses of > 100 people > 50 million pa I am hardly seeing it. i could be wrong