The COSS Monetization Reckoning Is Coming (opens in new tab)

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7 pointsbhalp15y ago5 comments

5 comments

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

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_...).

kthejoker25y ago

"owned" is definitely not the right verb there.

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

curtis33895y ago

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

justinclift5y 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.

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