2 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Infrastructure, Hashicorp

There are certainly some people who argue that open source and money shouldn’t mix, and that true open source should always be free and community-driven.

If open source projects are used by companies to make money, why shouldn’t the people who create them be paid in some way?

There are many ways to approach the subject of open source software and, well, money.

This is in contrast to someone who starts an open source project, nurtures and grows the project for years, and then decides to monetize it.

It was a C corporation, we were starting a company, but we had no clear idea how we would commercialize it and in that sense, we were really starting with a set of open source products.”