Venture capital meets commercial OSS (The Changelog #320)
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English - October 25, 2018 15:35 - 58 minutes - 81.1 MB - ★★★★ - 28 ratingsTechnology Education How To changelog open source oss software development developer hacker Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph. We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.
Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph.
We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.
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Featuring
Joseph Jacks – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
Notes and Links
The Changelog #310 — Open sourcing the DEV community
with Ben Halpern
Request for Commits #9 — Open source and licensing with Heather Meeker
OSS Capital
The $100M+ revenue commercial open source software company index
Commons Clause License
Open Core - Definition, examples, and tradeoffs
FOSSA
GNU AGPL (Affero General Public License)
Mozilla Public License
Version 2.0
Storj
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