1. What is FOSS? (FOSS doesn’t always mean you can’t earn money from it)
2. Why FOSS though when you can earn money directly by closed source software?
- Good for Community - Contributions, OSS friends
- Good for Adoption by users
- Great for brand and credibility - More contributions and stars
3. Example of some great FOSS companies? (Gitlab, Databricks, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Cal, Posthog, Requestly)
4. Different Ways of making money
1. Running Ads
2. Donations
- How?
- Popular projects that runs on donations?
- Some Feuds - Donations doesn’t work always (core-js, faker-js)
3. DeepDive - Open Core Model
- What is Open Core Model?
- What licenses to choose? (MIT, AGPL, GPL…)
- How to earn money using OpenCore
- Cloud Hosted Version
- Open Premise Enterprise Licenses
- What to lookout for? Eg. Big Enterprises exploiting licenses to host their own cloud version
4. What models and license some companies are using?