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I think "Commoditize your complement" comes into play here. Yeah, if your core offering is free, you're going to be fighting to make money. But you can get huge
by habitue 6y ago
I think "Commoditize your complement" comes into play here. Yeah, if your core offering is free, you're going to be fighting to make money. But you can get huge value if you open source otherwise proprietary parts of your stack.
- mooreds 6y agoWe've done this at my current company. We have a closed source, commercial offering. But our client libraries, our documentation, sample deployment scripts, and other supporting libraries are open source. We get some contributions.