The COSS Monetization Reckoning Is Coming

https://www.coss.community/jj/the-coss-monetization-reckoning-is-coming-2960

by bhalp1 • 6 years ago

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kgwxd• 6 years ago

Commercial Open-Source Software. Took me a very long time to figure out what that stood for.

curtis3389• 6 years ago

I hate it when sites put their About link below an infinite scroller.

iandinwoodie• 6 years ago

I went on the same search. For those interest in formal definition: Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software (reference: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03132-8_...).

kthejoker2• 6 years ago

"owned" is definitely not the right verb there.

"Exclusively commercially supported because there's no demand for a competitor" ...?

justinclift• 6 years ago

COSS companies like ... GitHub, ...

Hmmm. GitHub is an enabler and supporter of OSS - but unless something major has changed and I missed it - their main product isn't OSS.

They probably shouldn't be on that list.

The COSS Monetization Reckoning Is Coming

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