[PLUG] [ILUG-BOM] Can tech startups have an open source business strategy

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 11:20 AM Navin Dhanuka <navindhanuka at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can tech startups have an open source business strategy
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> Because of the cooperative approach to product development, open source
> many a times is not viewed as a business strategy but more as a technology
> model. But, with the advent multi billion dollar open source startups like
> Cloudera, Mulesoft, Databricks, Hashicorp, Confluent and more, this has
> changed.
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> Read More:
> https://analyticsindiamag.com/can-tech-startups-have-an-open-source-business-strategy/

"Open Source" is a software development model. There are many models,
open source is one of them. Open source software development model is
primarily adopted for "projects". These are, and continue to have, an
appropriately licensed publicly available (mostly) repository,
issue/defect reporting and download methods. A business strategy is
built around a product (or, a service formulation of the product). The
article often conflates and uses project/product interchangeably to
arrive at a forced hypothesis. What has happened in the last 2 decades
is that a significant number of artifacts which we use as part of
day-to-day computing are built around the open source software
development model. That is the change. A business can be built around
anything that has a market and a legal entity can apply a dynamic
pricing (or, micro-economics) to.