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There is an easy solution not just for this, but for other potential masses: Just go with MIT license and make money with support
by ayakang31415 3y ago
There is an easy solution not just for this, but for other potential masses: Just go with MIT license and make money with support
- sa-code 3y agoHow does this stop you from "getting Jeff'd", i.e. when AWS takes your own source code and competes with you?
- lolinder 3y ago"Getting Jeff'd" is only an existential crisis if your goal is to own the majority of the pie. Postgres's contributors come from a bunch of different companies who all manage to make enough money off of Postgres to pay them [0]. That is the only financial metric that really matters for funding a FOSS project. The problem with these companies is that they actually were trying to make large returns for shareholders rather than simply earn enough to keep paying the developers. [0] https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/
- IshKebab 3y agoYou're vastly overestimating how much companies want to pay for support.
- renegade-otter 3y agoAnd if they do pay for support - it will be to Jeff Bezos and not some raggy startup of five. Support is usually for big corporate clients, and the Cover Your Ass principle works in full force there. "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM".
- blitzar 3y agoThey wont get totally cut out though - Jeff Bezos will send the bugs they find while servicing their $10mil a year service contract to the raggy startup of five to fix over a weekend between their 3 jobs while sustaining themselves on the most expensive food they can afford - a bowl of discount ramen.
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- akho 3y agoAbout as much as it's worth, but not enough to give your VCs their x100 profit.