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If you are a company - what would you choose? Building from scratch, or sponsoring an open-source project so that it is well maintained?

Hello hackers,

I am Prasanna, the founder of PrivJs (https://privjs.com) - Internet's first open-core software marketplace.

While building a few products, I was wondering if it could be a good practice to release a chunk of my paid software to the open-source community? Will that have any adverse effects on the product? Or will it benefit overall?

-Prasanna

Hello all, You might already know that codefund.io shut a few days back. Most of the OSS developers only rely on sponsorship for their projects yet don't make much money. Being a full time OSS contributor is a difficult path to move forward. I attempted to help monetize OSS packages by building a marketplace (privjs.com) for "PRO" nodejs libraries where OSS developers could release a PRO version of their existing libraries and help cater the paid users better. Posted it on reddit and it was flooded with hate comments.

I just do not understand - what's wrong in monetizing OSS? And, why is it so hard to monetize? Why do people hate paying for code that saves hours/days of their time?

-Prasanna

Hi, I'm currently working on building a platform for selling npm packages but I was unsure whether people really need it or not. Could you guys please drop your feedback?