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The author of Zod had an insightful comment on FOSS and monetization https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456 https://twitter.com/colinhacks/st
by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
The author of Zod had an insightful comment on FOSS and monetization https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456 https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456
> whether an OSS project lends itself to monetization is a really interesting and subtle question. rule of thumb, be at least two of these: big, boring (roughly correlates with "infrastructural" as @patio11 puts it), and lacking obvious substitutes
The monetization strategy is only a part of the viability story.
- gavinhoward 3y agoThat rings true to me. Unfortunately, my software is only one of the three things: boring. Sure, it can become big over time, and my plan was to make it big by getting my software in the hands of developers first, but that will take time I probably don't have. Thank you.