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Consider this statement my own, but look at my profile for bias. I think you might be misunderstanding. Look at the companies there now: https://github.com/fl
by lbotos 4y ago
Consider this statement my own, but look at my profile for bias.
I think you might be misunderstanding. Look at the companies there now:
https://github.com/flowforge/flowforge https://github.com/flowforge/flowforge - The CTO is the creator.
https://www.mermaidchart.com/about-us/ https://www.mermaidchart.com/about-us/ - Knut Sveidqvist is the creator of mermaid and involved.
https://github.com/koor-tech https://github.com/koor-tech - Rook business, from a Rook Maintainer
https://fleetdm.com/ https://fleetdm.com/ - Long time contributor is CTO.
"Recruit" meaning see if the creator is interested in being CEO/CTO. And if they are one, find the other co-founder.
OCV is trying to throw money at OSS maintainers and help them make a business with his connections, capital and experience.
I literally watched him do it with DZ. I don't expect that to change with this new venture. But I am biased.
- ianbutler 4y agoThat's good to see. He may want to change the wording then. It comes off much more of recruiting around the maintainers. I'd be curious what happens if they say no. But so far from what you just posted, the actions seem to speak more charitably than I read it. The entire thing read to me like a typical venture studio model that will wind up screwing OSS maintainers out of the value they have created. I'd really consider reworking the marketing copy. I was super disappointed to see it from the CEO of GitLab because generally speaking I love your product and because I think you guys have been THE model for how to properly monetize open core while walking a good line for the open source part.