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Open source is to software makers what Groupon is to restaurants: a way to get people in the door, but many of those people are not, and will never become, the
by blueyes 6y ago
Open source is to software makers what Groupon is to restaurants: a way to get people in the door, but many of those people are not, and will never become, the customers you seek. Every open source business sells something else, often a solution to its own complexity, such as managed instances.
- offtop5 6y agoYou hit the nail on the head, I think ghost blog is relatively easy to set up, but for $9 a month and you'll handle my hosting and my ssl certs, and most people with a bit of disposable income are fine with paying that. I just spent $80 on a nice meal and a couple of drinks, if my blog is anything like an income source I'll have no problem with spending $100 a month for someone to manage it for me. I would still advise students, and other new developers to go through the motions of hosting things themselves via AWS or whatever. If you can get a Ubuntu instance on ec2 to run a public facing website you probably can walk into a tech company and get an entry level job. It's not necessarily hard to learn how to do these things, it's just tedious. Avoiding the tedious drama is how open source companies make money
- mraza007 6y agoI totally agree with your comment and you gave a great analogy