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Selling performance optimizations is another option. It's not relevant to startups and individual users, but can be relevant for enterprises, who spend millions
by ashvardanian 3y ago
Selling performance optimizations is another option. It's not relevant to startups and individual users, but can be relevant for enterprises, who spend millions on cloud.
- kjok 3y agoThis is a good suggestion. I assume you mean FOSS maintainers can create a variant (package?) that's optimized for performance. I'd thought of a similar variant, but for telemetry based on the recent Moq incident https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066312
- gsuuon 3y agoHow would the licensing for something like that work?
- ezekg 3y agoMike from Sidekiq kind of does this with his Pro [0] version -- offering a "more reliable" job queue via Redis' RPOPLPUSH among other features. He still uses license keys and a private gem server to distribute the premium features, afaiaa [1]. [0]: https://sidekiq.org/products/pro.html https://sidekiq.org/products/pro.html [1]: https://www.mikeperham.com/2016/05/17/commercial-gems/ https://www.mikeperham.com/2016/05/17/commercial-gems/