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interesting article. outside of gitlab, ghost.org are there other companies that embrace this model?
by digitalbase 6y ago
interesting article. outside of gitlab, ghost.org are there other companies that embrace this model?
- cheeseblubber 6y agoWe have a similar model at Papercups where our product is open source https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups but we charge for hosting. We're big fans of Plausible since we both follow a similar model and are both written in Elixir :)
- ukutaht 6y agohigh five!
- ukutaht 6y agoQuite a few new players with this model. Off the top of my head: https://papercups.io/ https://papercups.io/ https://www.getoutline.com/ https://www.getoutline.com/ https://write.as/ https://write.as/ https://www.flagsmith.com/ https://www.flagsmith.com/ https://posthog.com/ https://posthog.com/
- dljsjr 6y agoNot to be pedantic but out of all of those, Outline is not actually open source; they're source available but they're using the BSL, which is "source available now and open source in the future"
- ukutaht 6y agoFair enough. BSL is technically not open source but it is endorsed by Bruce Perens of the Open Source Initiative and I believe it is a very good license for new startups in this space. https://itsfoss.com/making-the-business-source-license-open-source-compliant/ https://itsfoss.com/making-the-business-source-license-open-...
- dljsjr 6y agoI have no beef w/ the BSL. I think it's a great license. It's just not quite open source is all.
- strzibny 6y agoI made a list a while ago when I was making the decision[0]. I started on Fathom and moved to Plausible. [0] https://nts.strzibny.name/privacy-oriented-alternatives-to-google-analytics/ https://nts.strzibny.name/privacy-oriented-alternatives-to-g...