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shazow
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Occasionally I try to convince a software business that it's worth open sourcing their product. Here's my latest spiel. Anything missing or false statements? Should I make this into a blog post?
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Norswap 🏴☠️✨
@norswap
One thing I personally struggle w/ is I like to make my sofware A LOT easier to use & onboard than the norm, and that makes it much more likely to be copied w/ an organization with bigger resources. So you really count on them not getting your value prop, but if you communicate that well...
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Norswap 🏴☠️✨
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Very specific scenario though, and I generally believe the pros outweigh the cons. Also it's not binary, you can stay closed-source before going to market in some instances.
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shazow
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I also urge companies to go open source as early as possible, it's astronomically more expensive to do it a year later than on day 0. You make very different decisions when something is OSS (I argue better decisions with only marginal cost, like not hardcoding secrets).
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