Pick two: 1. Valuable product maintained by professionals 2. Is free 3. Will be around for a long time - craigyk
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Replying to @mperham
Rails is going on 12 years and counting and Ruby on 21. Odd reality to argue against.
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Replying to @dhh
That said, OSS is littered with dead projects that tried to do 1 and 2. You and I both found a way around it.
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Replying to @mperham
Love that you made it work with Sidekiq and Phusion with Passenger. But these are the exceptions, not other way around.
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Ember is also a counterexample, so is Postgres. The high order bit for all these projects is supported by many, owned by none.
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also Discourse is doing fine and is profitable without needing to beg for another VC round
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Discourse is an interesting case for me as it's largely VC-free but still largely owned.
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Replying to @wycats @samsaffron and
a big part of it may be having a business model that doesn't directly compete with the OSS?
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Replying to @wycats @samsaffron and
the target consumer is, for the most part, not particularly tech savvy and doesn't overlap with devs
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but the product is still very useful for devs and justifies contribution for them. Pretty good combo.
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