Creator Series Open Source Creator Series, Part 7: Deriving Commercial Product from Open Source Project This is Part 7 of our Open Source Creator Series on “Deriving Commercial Product from Open Source Project" to help you – the open source technology creators – understand and bootstrap some
Resources Open Source Culture Company Handbooks This is a reference list of company handbooks who are building an open source company culture. This list is inspired by a recent conversation between DROdio (CEO at Armory) and
Building Company Open Source Culture DROdio (CEO at Armory) and Kate MacAleavey (Head of Culture and Leadership Development at Armory) recently had a fascinating discussion on YouTube with Joseph Jacks about "open source culture", in
Building Company Good and not Evil: the Advent of Ethos Licensing This post was first published on the blog, Copyleft Currents. For years, my clients have asked me what to do about the “Good not Evil” license, which is most famously
Building Company Lessons in Managing a Distributed Team Building a 100% distributed, or remote first, workforce is becoming more popular for tech companies. Some notable ones are: GitLab, Basecamp, Hashicorp, Automattic, and DEV. (If I missed any, please
Fostering Community Five Decades of Permissionless Software Innovation Movements Why Commercial Open-Source Software (“COSS”) represents the next major transformational permissionless software movement?
Doing Business PolyForm and Open Core Although PolyForm licenses have many uses, one important driver of the value for PolyForm licenses is the Open Core licensing model.
Doing Business Investing in the Red Zone: Commercial Open Source and Bear Markets When markets are on an upward trajectory, investing is not so hard. After all, the stock market always goes up over the long term. But it takes more work to identify good investments during down markets. Fortunately, COSS businesses can be a great investment during bad times.
Doing Business COSS Company Value Creation and Capture Fundamentals This post defines the distinctions of value creation and value capture between closed-source and open-source software companies.
Developing Product COSS Will Eat $500+ Billion Of SaaS Over ~20 Years This post predicts that Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies will eat SaaS over the next 20 years.
Developing Product OSS Will Eat Cloud Computing Open source software will eat cloud computing. Read this post to find out how this trend will play out.
Developing Product What does the shift to multi-cloud-OSS-aaS mean for COSS companies/founders? What are the implications for COSS companies as the world moves to multi-cloud? This post explores this topic.
Fostering Community Creating OSS Value != Capturing OSS Value This post explains the main differences between value creation and value capture in the open source context.
Doing Business COSS Business Model Progressions This post explores the various business models applicable to Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies, and how they work and progress during the lifetime of a company.
Doing Business Open Core - Definition, Examples & Tradeoffs This post explores the definition, implementation, and implications of the Open Core business model, in the context of building Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies.
Building Company The $100 Billion+ Commercial OSS Index (COSSI) This post summarizes the origin, motivation, and goal of the Commercial Open Source Software Index (COSSI).
