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Concerning soending, open-source contributors are not employees. They do contribute to business, but wouldn’t do what you need if you needed it, like fixing vul
by eastbound 4y ago
Concerning soending, open-source contributors are not employees. They do contribute to business, but wouldn’t do what you need if you needed it, like fixing vulnerabilities. There should be the same difference as between standard on-the-shelf products and custom products made for the industry, that fit a particular purpose.
- hardwaresofton 4y ago> Concerning soending, open-source contributors are not employees. They do contribute to business, but wouldn’t do what you need if you needed it, like fixing vulnerabilities. I agree, there's value being brought by both sides of this equation -- F/OSS developers for building something valuable, and Nimbus for providing it, making fixes/upstream contributions when necessary, etc. The problem with the current state of things is that the value capture is ~0% for F/OSS projects. Maybe 15%-30% is too high, but it needs to be appreciably above 0% for F/OSS to flourish. > There should be the same difference as between standard on-the-shelf products and custom products made for the industry, that fit a particular purpose. Would you mind expanding on this? Are you advocating for open core? It's not that I want to provide an enterprise version of 10/100ss of software -- more that I think there's value in them as a service (use Postgres, but avoid getting a degree in Postges administration). The idea is to do just enough hacking that makes the service more reliable and sustainable to run without manual ops burden -- that's the differentiator for Nimbus (along with know-how).