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The Caddy project is fighting to show it can work. We are having moderate success. I just gave a talk about this a couple weeks ago at an internal company even
by mholt 3y ago
The Caddy project is fighting to show it can work. We are having moderate success.
I just gave a talk about this a couple weeks ago at an internal company event and will be doing so again at GoWest in a few weeks. The premise is that open source licenses are what they are: they grant freedom, but not other things that companies would pay money for. Proprietary licenses do offer what companies need, but at the cost of freedom.
I believe there is a third model that works in the middle without compromising freedom or reliability. By staying open source and filling the gap of what companies need through sponsorships, I think this may work for some.
I'm currently redesigning the Caddy website to emphasize this and hope it will work!
- mindwok 3y agoI love Caddy and have shilled to everyone I know, so thanks for your great work. I'm keen to hear more about your model, because I think the influx of companies abandoning their open source roots has shown the problems with the current approach. I am rooting for you folks!
- mholt 3y agoThank you!! Appreciate that encouragement.
- revendell_elf 3y agoCaddy is far more simpler to understand than any any other server software. Thanks for building Caddy!
- candiddevmike 3y agoSponsorware is/eventually becomes basically ad supported, it's not really a new thing.
- mholt 3y agoNah we tried that already -- this is different.