Commercial Models and Open Source: How Revenue Generation & Open Source Fit Together
summary
Argues that open source is a development and distribution approach not a business model, catalogs revenue patterns like support, subscription and open core, and gives concrete exits — Red Hat $34B, Pivotal $2.7B, Rancher $600M — to show what scales. Documents recent licensing shifts (Commons Clause, SSPL) and cloud “strip mining” where hyperscalers monetize projects without sharing value, notes real forks and vendor proprietary forks, and predicts negotiation and revenue-sharing deals rather than license reinvention as the likely fix.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:05Open Source Today
- 4:09Why Open Source
- 8:22Open Source Business Models
- 13:14Database Business Models
- 16:44Strip Mining
- 20:17Solutions
- 24:44Open UK
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