Keynote: Open Source and Startup Business Models
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019 · on Wednesday, 2019-10-30· at 10:25· Amphitheatre·
summary
Commercial open source companies are a net positive but face the risk of being forked and commoditized by hyper clouds, so GitLab builds a single-application DevOps platform and monetizes with buyer-based open core to resist that pressure. The product is application software (GUI, multi-tenant) and mixes open and paid features across a unified repo—about 1.5 million lines of code—and achieves adoption: 100,000+ organizations, millions of users, 2,200+ contributors and a $268M funding round, with 5x per-tier pricing and 25x between bottom and top tiers.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 3:26Relationship between OSS and Business
- 5:19COSS is a net positive (IMHO)
- 7:08COSS reaction: Non-compete licenses
- 15:46Business Models We Considered
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