2 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Hashicorp, github

Open source projects produce some of the most valuable and sophisticated software that can also lower the costs of information technology for companies. But while increased corporate investment has accelerated growth in open source this year, it has not gone without its challenges in the community and within business partnerships. According to https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-open-source-report/2021, 90% of IT leaders are using enterprise open source, and 79% expect their use of enterprise open source software for emerging technologies to increase over the next two years. With most businesses using some form of open source, there is still varying maturity along the spectrum from consuming to producing and embracing open source.

https://thenewstack.io/entrepreneurship-for-engineers-open-source-business-models — If open source projects are used by companies to make money, why shouldn’t the people who create them be paid in some way?