For the Open Source Business Model challenged: There are projects and products. Projects have communities. Products have customers. Communities have time and no money. Customers have money and no time. Different conversations. Different metrics. 1/n
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There is no conversion rate from community into customer. Early adopting community members are not
@geoffreyamoore early adopting customers. Don't make this mistake. 2/n3 replies 8 retweets 31 likesShow this thread -
Using open source licensed projects as components in your product build is good engineering economics. To 'build vs buy' you've added 'borrow and share'. Sharing isn't altruism. You have to share because you're otherwise living on an expensive, brittle fork. 3/n
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If you DON'T own the project & it is a critical component in the product (e.g. the Linux kernel in RHEL) you probably want to invest 8%-12% in the upstream project. Everyone else needs to be focused on customer-facing solutions. 4/n
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How are you coming up with this 8-12% number?
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Excellent question. Investment in all the
@linuxfoundation kernel reports over 10-12 years: Top companies using Linux peak at 8-12%. Look at the failures in the OpenStack world a few years ago for the companies going higher into the 15-20% space. Not enough $$$ left for product.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
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