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Any thoughts on (F)OSS models for IoT? We’ve usually got some hardware and firmware closely bound together, with traditional model being selling hardware with

• Towaway69 3y ago
  What FlowFuse[0] does is market Node-RED[1] as the Open Source offering, obtaining contributions for various devices from the community and incorporate those into their commerical offering. IoT has the problem that many devices but few users per device. So who is going to make the effect to build an integration for third-party software? The FlowFuse model is to allow the community to do that while they (indirectly) upsell that work. FlowFuse also provides the SaaS solution for commerical gains. [0] https://flowfuse.com/ https://flowfuse.com/ [1] https://nodered.org https://nodered.org