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Really, there is none. After reading through so many of these types of threads, I'm convinced there is no sustainable business model for open source infrastruct
by cercatrova 6y ago
Really, there is none. After reading through so many of these types of threads, I'm convinced there is no sustainable business model for open source infrastructure.
The best bet would be to build proprietary paid services on top of the open source infrastructure. See Laravel's projects.
- cpitman 6y agoThis seems at odds with the multiple open source kubernetes distributions on the market. The problem isn't that Docker is open source infrastructure, the issue was that it remained too low-level as a container daemon, didn't manage to build a large community around swarm, and then were really late to embrace kubernetes. There easily could have been an alternate history where Docker Inc was the first one out of the gate with an enterprise kubernetes distribution, been a positive part of the community, and been a success.
- pbiggar 6y agoFully agree. I'm going to keep your post in mind when I write about the business model of darklang.
- cercatrova 6y agoHopefully it goes well, I heard about the downsizing and the OCaml to F# transition.
- pbiggar 6y agoThanks!
- zokier 6y ago> I'm convinced there is no sustainable business model for open source infrastructure From my personal point of view, the most sustainable way of funding development of free software is through businesses that utilize that software, but whose main business is not that software. The value proposition for the business to open source their software is mainly in getting improvements from outside, and to ensure better integration with other free software. But the main reason to build software should be selfish in the sense that you can directly use it yourself, and not the idea that you could somehow sell the software in some way or form.