My thoughts on monetizing open source SaaS businesses from my experience at Sentry.
Building an Open Source Service
What does Open Source mean at Sentry? We're refreshing our commitment to open source and how we build Sentry.
Running ads with Sentry
We’re excited to announce our first partner in our Ethical Advertising campaign: Sentry. Sentry was a natural first partner, both because they have a long history supporting and contributing to the open source community, and because they also strive to support open source while building a sustain...
Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.
The Secrets of Successful Open Source Business Models
Finding the right model for your open-source startup
Fueling Open Source with Vibes & Money
Economists think Open Source is a business model. Devs know better, and fund it accordingly.
The Great Open Source Shake-up
The past year and a half has seen a number of open source and open source-ish companies like Elastic, Confluent, and MongoDB change licenses on certain products, moving away from traditional open s…
Is open source wealth distribution fair?
These concrete value propositions can convince companies to pay open source maintainers.
Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
There is NO Open Source Business Model
Preface: It has been brought to my attention by friends and trusted advisors that a valid interpretation of my point below is that open…
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.
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.
How to build a successful business model around open source software
The right approach to open source can be a great revenue model for the software provider — my company did it and we've been profitable since day one.
How to Make Money from Open Source Platforms - Linux.com
John Mark Walker is the Open Source Ecosystems Manager at Red Hat. I never thought I’d have to write this article in 2015. By now, I thought it would be self-evident how to derive revenue from open source software platforms. But alas, no. Despite the fact that the success of open source software is unparalleled and […]
Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding
Sentry started life in 2008 as an unlicensed, 71-line Django plugin. The next year we began publishing it under BSD-3, and ten years later we switched to the Business Source License (BSL or BUSL). Last year we purchased Codecov, and a few months ago we published it under BSL/BUSL as well. That led to some vigorous debate because of our use of the term “Open Source” to describe Codecov, from which emerged this helpful suggestion from Adam Jacob, co-founder of Chef:
