Re: [DISCUSS] Crazy or good Idea?

If we take the maintenance of an OpenSource project as a business, we need to figure out the market share of the OpenSource project. The more popular a project, the more easy we can get the money from the user of the project. I think that is why TideLift has a bar for the supported OpenSource proj

Re: [DISCUSS] Crazy or good Idea?

Hi all, I guess my point about this is, that small startups usually have problems of getting contracts. I can't count the occasions, where I generated leads at a conference. After the conference, when we were discussing moving forward, 95% of all of these died because the customers can't do bu

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Re: [DISCUSS] Crazy or good Idea?

I think you're mostly right about that. Even a Support Inc would have the same issue that PMCs have here: just because you're an Apache project doesn't mean everything works the same as any other Apache project. Having some sort of central business services to support businesses seems to mirror the

Re: [DISCUSS] Crazy or good Idea?

> I thought the point of this idea was to make OSS development sustainable, not to train us all to be founders of startups. Yes. I think this is a really nice summary of what my point is. Thanks for putting it so succinctly. I personally think if you want to make a living out of the OSS contributi

Re: [DISCUSS] Crazy or good Idea?

I thought the point of this idea was to make OSS development sustainable, not to train us all to be founders of startups. The bar to contributors is already high enough as it is (who has the time, energy, and knowledge to spend here? I’d assume mostly well-off people). For comparison, projects

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Re: [DISCUSS] Crazy or good Idea?

So I think we are talking about two different approaches then and hence the mi understanding. I was thinking more about solving all the legal/administrative barriers. At least that's what I see as a much, much bigger problem than actually doing marketing and finding stakeholders willing to pay for

Re: [DISCUSS] Crazy or good Idea?

These were the parts, that I was thinking should be the work of such a shared Support Inc. That the projects could concentrate on the work, not on what's needed to get the work. Chris Holen Sie sich Outlook für Android From: Matt Sicker