{"id":336,"date":"2019-07-12T12:39:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/?p=336"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:39:37","slug":"how-can-you-generate-revenue-with-an-open-source-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/how-can-you-generate-revenue-with-an-open-source-product\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Generate Revenue With an Open Source Product?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was reading a BBC article<\/a> months ago about a guy who tried to sink his business. The reason why<\/em> he wanted to sink his business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem, as he saw it, was that this simple code was open source –\n that is, it had already been made available to developers at no cost – \nso Peter [Reinhardt] could not see how it could bring money in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, this guy didn’t know a lot about open source. While it’s \ntrue that companies that have used open source software as their main \nproduct have come and gone, there are a few who made it work. One was Red Hat<\/a>, with their GNU\/Linux OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The reason why they succeeded? They became the<\/em>\n best source of anything RHEL. Need it installed on a bunch of servers \neasily? Done. Do you require fixes quickly? They can handle that. Have a\n taste for all of that containerization stuff you’ve heard about? Red \nHat has you covered. How about technologies which add to and improve \nRHEL? Red Hat has that in spades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s mainly what a company with an open source product needs to do:\n become the best firm for that piece of open source software. Deliver \nthe best service, the best features, and the best support for that \nsoftware. And if that didn’t convince you, then maybe the recent $34 billion purchase of Red Hat by IBM<\/a> may persuade you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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