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Sure, you can have a for-pay open source app, but if it's a consumer product (as opposed to, say, some B2B thing with special licensing), then it isn't going an
by tayistay 5y ago
Sure, you can have a for-pay open source app, but if it's a consumer product (as opposed to, say, some B2B thing with special licensing), then it isn't going anywhere as a business. Many people will just download the code and compile it instead of paying you (or find someone else who packaged it up). That's why open source has been more successful with software-as-service.
- andrekandre 5y ago> but if it's a consumer product...then it isn't going anywhere as a business why?
- EduardoBautista 5y agoDo you have an example of a successful open source consumer product business?
- pdanpdan 5y agoPostgreSQL?
- EduardoBautista 5y agoIt's not a consumer product.
- Quot 5y agoJust off the top of my head, Aseprite: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite Onivim: https://v2.onivim.io/ https://v2.onivim.io/ Ardour: https://ardour.org/ https://ardour.org/ Of course, I don't know how successful each of those projects are, but they seem to be successful enough to continue development.
- EduardoBautista 5y agoFirst one is not an open source and the other two don't appear to be businesses.
- NoThisIsMe 5y agoONLYOFFICE (not yelling, that's how they stylize it) and Nextcloud
- DanRabbit 5y agoI’ve been selling open source software as my full time job for like 7 years now