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Perhaps the difference between a religion and a cult is that you can leave a religion. Likewise .. if you can get your data in a standard format and walk away,

by jgord 1y ago

Perhaps the difference between a religion and a cult is that you can leave a religion. Likewise .. if you can get your data in a standard format and walk away, you are not locked-in. Customers tend to feel less aggrieved when they have access to their data - too many SaaS platforms dont allow this.

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
Really interesting. As someone who wants to monetize his side projects, I am not sure what I should do. Should I make it 1) open source under permissive license (MIT) 2) open source under restrictive license (AGPL/SSPL) 3) source available and only permissive if you pay me a license (like how redis did it in the middle but actually this time , instead of changing license after project is already famous, I do it from the start of the project) 4) not make its source available and distribute a binary for fixed one time. 5) I do any of the above things but with primarily supporting saas? and supporting the ability to move out as you mentioned Currently, most of my software that I write is just open sourced with MIT and I just private the software that I think has value.
- jgord 1y ago
  I have similar questions - think open source funding is an important and unsolved problem. Under an ideal economy and politics, we might use taxation to fund OpenSource projects that are in the public interest : just as we used tax to build road, rail, bridges, and other widely used shared infrastructure. It would not be the end of competition or capitalism if we did this - similarly we should fund science and engineering research, and that could include funding development of OSS projects indirectly. I know YC say they invest in business models built around open source, and open source can work as a marketing sales funnel toward paid SaaS premium features. It would be nice to have some analytics on what hybrid OSS/SaaS biz models work well in practice.
  - Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
    Absolutely. Do hit me up if you find it as there definitely needs a mix b/w the morality and money for software since open source to me is a moral standpoint and I want to find the right mix I guess.

by jgord 1y ago

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago

Really interesting. As someone who wants to monetize his side projects, I am not sure what I should do. Should I make it 1) open source under permissive license (MIT) 2) open source under restrictive license (AGPL/SSPL) 3) source available and only permissive if you pay me a license (like how redis did it in the middle but actually this time , instead of changing license after project is already famous, I do it from the start of the project) 4) not make its source available and distribute a binary for fixed one time. 5) I do any of the above things but with primarily supporting saas? and supporting the ability to move out as you mentioned Currently, most of my software that I write is just open sourced with MIT and I just private the software that I think has value.

jgord 1y ago
I have similar questions - think open source funding is an important and unsolved problem. Under an ideal economy and politics, we might use taxation to fund OpenSource projects that are in the public interest : just as we used tax to build road, rail, bridges, and other widely used shared infrastructure. It would not be the end of competition or capitalism if we did this - similarly we should fund science and engineering research, and that could include funding development of OSS projects indirectly. I know YC say they invest in business models built around open source, and open source can work as a marketing sales funnel toward paid SaaS premium features. It would be nice to have some analytics on what hybrid OSS/SaaS biz models work well in practice.
- Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
  Absolutely. Do hit me up if you find it as there definitely needs a mix b/w the morality and money for software since open source to me is a moral standpoint and I want to find the right mix I guess.