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I'll be watching your adventure with keen interest. I'm also building an open source project that I want to avoid the "openbsd effect" and sustain itself, more
by lukego 13y ago
I'll be watching your adventure with keen interest.
I'm also building an open source project that I want to avoid the "openbsd effect" and sustain itself, more like the Linux kernel.
I have a company that I'm using as a vehicle to bootstrap this project. The company sells services and acts as an example for others to start offering similar services (ideally including Redhat etc one day). To play it safe I don't allow the company to have any intellectual property and I don't sell any equity.
The idea of the company as a vehicle rather than an asset has been a powerful one for me.
- shykes 13y agoHappy to chat about it anytime, and please let me know if I can help! It should go without saying that I don't think this is the only route for supporting open-source. Linux comes to mind as perhaps the most successful open-source project of all time, and it is backed by a non-profit foundation funded by member companies. (for example Docker inc. is a small member of the foundation, so a small fraction of the $15m we raised will pay for a small fraction of the salary of a core linux maintainer).