The Great Open Source Shake-up

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

Amazon’s latest offering highlights the economic challenges facing open source companies — and Amazon should pay attention.

Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch

New alternative category to 'closed source' could help companies monetize software in the open -- without going all-in on open source.

Sustaining Open Source Software

The ‘open source sustainability’ debate continues with yet-another-company relicensing their product away from an open source license to…

In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move?

We have to draw a line between open source and the right to make money with open source."

Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend | Linux Journal

Licensing lies at the heart of open source. Arguably, free software began with the publication of the GNU GPL in 1989. And since then, open-source projects are defined as such by virtue of the licenses they adopt and whether the latter meet the Open Source Definition. The continuing importance of licensing is shown by the periodic flame wars that erupt in this area. Recently, there have been two such flarings of strong feelings, both of which raise important issues.

Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source | Andreessen Horowitz

Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and nearly every other modern technology company would not exist. Thanks to an amazing community of innovative, top-notch programmers, open source has become the...

Open Source Business Model is Under Siege [Video Insights]

This post is about about the existential threat that Open Source Database companies, or any open source software infrastructure, are facing from cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Watch the video as Paul Dix, Fou...

Open Source Business Model is Under Siege [Video Insights]

This post is about about the existential threat that Open Source Database companies, or any open source software infrastructure, are facing from cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Watch the video as Paul Dix, Fou...

The $70B Open Source Software Paradox

It’s no news that over the last 10-15 years, particularly noticeable in the last 5 years, the enterprise software industry has gradually transformed from complex, expensive, closed-source (proprietary) software stacks to extensible/configurable,...

Revisiting the Open Source Business Model

In the past few years, many companies have come to me asking for help drafting a “new open source license.”  As a rule, drafting a new open source software license is not a good idea, s…

Open source software companies that go proprietary: A timeline | TechCrunch

Tracking open source software companies that have gone proprietary over the past 10 years: A timeline.

Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses | TechCrunch

Cloud infrastructure providers -- such as Amazon -- continue to pose an existential threat to the future of open source.

Open source and the software supply chain

Managing something as esoteric as resources for building software with a variety of contributions made by the open source community is more amorphic.

The Commercial Open Source Pledge

I’m pretty frustrated by some of the discussion around the recent relicensing decisions by commercial open source companies. A fair bit of it seems confused to me, and I think this is mostly …

Everything an open source maintainer might need to know about open source licensing | Ben Balter

There's lots of internet lore around open source licensing. An attorney and open source developer answers the most common questions.