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Wow. It looks like this man has no idea what the free software spirit is. I mean, he definitely hasn't, as he's talking about "exit value“. Still, he's writing
by flaburgan 6y ago
Wow. It looks like this man has no idea what the free software spirit is. I mean, he definitely hasn't, as he's talking about "exit value“. Still, he's writing that with HTML, using SSL and TCP, on a PHP website probably running on Nginx or Apache on a Linux server with a postgresql database... Opensource is what allows him to talk to people or even create his business he is so proud of that he gives advices to everybody, yet he encourages everyone to not join the game. If open source has some problem, it's certainly because of people like him.
- tppiotrowski 6y agoThe author only shares his personal opinion on whether he would invest money in FOSS. He is not advocating that FOSS serves no purpose.
- pchap10k 6y agoDo engineers working full time in a FOSS core team need someone to pay their salaries? Nothing the author said was against FOSS on a volunteer basis. What he said was it’s a challenging business model, unless you can reach escape velocity, and the window for that success is much narrower than simply selling a commercial product from day one. There are real differences between FOSS that provides foundational capability (network layer, drivers, OS) and application layer projects. Firstly, they largely were built at a different time, secondly they were pure FOSS and not backed by a founding company that relied on it to keep core development going (Redhat’s business backed into Linux, so they benefitted from an existing core). TLDR a founder who struggled to establish a business based on FOSS is saying don’t do it as a business because it’s harder than you think and can feel like a thankless endeavor.