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I loved reading this, thanks for the collection. The funding trouble is somewhat surprising. Has anyone gone through and done a deep dive comparison of other
by Mortiffer 4y ago
I loved reading this, thanks for the collection.
The funding trouble is somewhat surprising. Has anyone gone through and done a deep dive comparison of other open source projects that are doing fine.
Mastodon, doing fine on donations because the product small and well defined ?
IPFS, from the start they planned to make money with fileCoin and IPFS is a supporting service they develop because it is useful for fileCoin?
Elasticsearch, well defined product with traditional enterprise feature split and users who are very accustomed to paying for this kind of a product ?
MongoDB, well defined product and much more restrictive license ?
Supabase, much less to develop because they are mostly gluing existing code together. But they are bringing out some great new things and the glue has value . And again its a database so people are accustomed to paying ?
gitlab, nginx...
There are actually countless open source companies doing well when they are in a category of product that people are accustomed to paying for.
How far away would matrix be from becoming something like Cloud Native Computing Foundation or Linux Foundation. I suppose larger tech companies need to start making money with Matrix not Goverments or smaller anti capitalism groups.
- Yoric 4y ago> Elasticsearch, well defined product with traditional enterprise feature split and users who are very accustomed to paying for this kind of a product ? If my memory serves, Elasticsearch suffered a lot from Amazon offering their product for free without contributing in any manner. That's not very far from what is happening to Matrix.
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