Show Notes
Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting. SHOW: 816SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #816SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog)“figure out how to play nice with competition” (Twitter)The will never be another Red Hat - Economics of OSS (a16z)OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODELThere are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainersFREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONESRed Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributorsYellow flags: Foundation owns copyright“There’s the business side and there’s the hippie side of OSS”“I have endless ambitions”“I didn’t build a forever entity”“When is the rug pull going to happen?”If a company takes VC funding, is open source anything more than a marketing vehicle?“Docker figured it out and now they are doing like $100M”. Did they? When is OSS personal, and when is it a company?Will there never be another Red Hat, or just not another Linux?How much is too much when determining if a company should give things away for free?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @EntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow