The Business of Open Source
208 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether you're a founder of an open source startup, an open source maintainer or just an open source enthusiast, join host Emily Omier as she talks to the people who work at the intersection of open source and business, from startup founders to leaders of open source giants and all the people who help open source startups grow.
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Aligning with User + Customer Needs with Rod Johnson
April 24, 2024 09:56 - 46 minutes - 31.3 MBThis week on The Business of Open Source I had Rod Johnson, founder/CEO of Spring Source and creator of the Spring Framework (as well as board member of many other open source companies) on to talk about Spring, monetizing open source and what’s changed in the open source ecosystem since 2008. Key takeaways: Consulting was burning the entire team out, and that threatened the health not just of the consulting business, but of the open source project as well An amazing salesperson...
Taking a hard look at what community means and if every OSS company needs one with Deepak Prabhakara
April 17, 2024 08:48 - 35 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with BoxyHQ co-founder and CEO Deepak Prabhakara. We talked about a number of things, from BoxyHQ’s relationship with its open source project, called SAML Jackson to how to build a growth flywheel and how that flywheel does and does not depend on a community. Is BoxyHQ a security company? Does it matter either way? Starting the open source project at the same time as the company, and why they did it that way The relationship bet...
Getting Your Pricing Model Right-ish with Alex Olivier
April 10, 2024 07:30 - 25 minutes - 20.2 MBIn the second episode that I recorded on-site at KubeCon EU in Paris, I spoke with Alex Olivier, CPO and co-founder of Cerbos. This was not a general discussion: It was focused on the process that Cerbos went through to figure out pricing. Here’s what we talked about: The first step of figuring out your pricing is not the number, but rather what you’re charging for. Is it API calls, or amount of data you’re processing, or monthly active users, or monthly active principles… that l...
Nailing Customer Acquisition with Patrick Backman of MariaDB and OpenOcean
April 03, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes - 19.8 MBThis week, I had a dilemma: should I prioritize the episode where I spoke with one of the MariaDB co-founders, in which we discuss setting up a foundation as a way to ensure that the project continues to be open source in the future, no matter what (relevant given the Redis announcement); or should I prioritize the conversation with one of the founders of Sonatype, one of the oldest companies in the software supply chain security space, in which we talk about the xz debacle. I wen...
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan
March 27, 2024 06:00 - 35 minutes - 29.7 MBThis week on The Business of Open Source, I have an episode recorded on site at KubeCon EU in Paris with William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant. We had a fabulous conversation, which touched on some touchy subjects, including Buoyant’s slightly changing relationship with Linkerd. But we talked about: Being an open source mercenary, but also being dedicated to making Linkerd a ‘proper’ open source project Feeling like open source was table stakes for a company in the space Buoyant plays in...
From Project to Profit with Heather Meeker
March 20, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes - 68 MBThis week on The Business of Open Source I talked to Heather Meeker, General Partner of OSS Capital and author of From Project to Profit, How to Build a Business around your Open Source Project. We talked about some things that I entirely agree with, and then there were some points I challenged Heather on — all in all, it was fabulous conversation. Here’s what we covered: Why you should think of your project and product as two different products so you avoid thinking of your open...
Delivering Value Quickly in the Observability Space with Pranay Prateek
March 13, 2024 09:34 - 39 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Pranay Prateek, co-founder of SigNoz. Pranay talked about why open source is important to SigNoz's business, why it's super important to deliver value quickly, even for an observability product, and why founders shouldn't think of open source just as a distribution model. We also covered: How SigNoz is differentiated in the crowded observability market Why Pranay thinks being open source makes it much easier for developers t...
OSFS Special Episode: Being a Strategic Acquisition Target as an OSS Company with Thomas Di Giacomo
March 12, 2024 11:56 - 32 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this special episode to promote Open Source Founders Summit, I went deep with Thomas di Giacomo about how open source companies can position themselves as attractive acquisition targets for strategic buyers. If you are the founder of an open source company and you have the idea of being acquired even in the back of your mind, this is a must-listen episode. Whether or not you plan to join us May 27th and 28th in Paris, though of course we hope you do join us. By the way, at OS...
Buyer-Based Open Core with Zach Wasserman
March 06, 2024 09:47 - 37 minutes - 69.3 MBThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO of Fleet. This was a fabulous episode for many reasons, but then again I never do crappy episodes, right? The first thing I wanted to call your attention to is that Zach talked about how he’s building an open core business because building an open source business is what he wants to do. When his previous company turned away from open source, Zach left to do consulting around OSquery and Fleet...
The Evolving Relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax
February 28, 2024 09:10 - 40 minutes - 74.1 MBSlightly different The Business of Open Source episode today! I spoke with Patrick McFadin and Mick Semb Wever about the relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax — how it was at the beginning and how the relationship has evolved over the years. We talked about: — How there was a dynamic around Cassandra where many of the many of the contributors ended up being sucked into the DataStax orbit, simply because it allowed those contributors to work on on Cassandra full-time ...
The Evolving Relationship between Cassandra and DataStax
February 28, 2024 09:10 - 40 minutes - 74.1 MBSlightly different The Business of Open Source episode today! I spoke with Patrick McFadin and Mick Semb Wever about the relationship between Cassandra and DataStax — how it was at the beginning and how the relationship has evolved over the years. We talked about: — How there was a dynamic around Cassandra where many of the many of the contributors ended up being sucked into the DataStax orbit, simply because it allowed those contributors to work on on Cassandra full-time — How ...
OSFS Special Episode: A Deep Dive into GTM with Frank Karlitschek
February 22, 2024 09:37 - 30 minutes - 55.1 MBIn this episode of the Open Source Founders Podcast, I talked with Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud. Frank is going to be talking specifically about lead generation at Open Source Founders Summit, but in this episode we took a slightly wider view and talked about go to market, for open source companies in general and specifically for Frank’s experience at Nextcloud. A couple other things to pull out as takeaways. First of all, Frank talks about how he originally p...
Staying Completely Open Source with Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona
February 21, 2024 09:16 - 30 minutes - 56.5 MBThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Percona CEO Ann Schlemmer. This episode was recorded on site at State of Open Con in London, outside in a van! There’s a ton of great info in this episode, too. First of all, Ann talked about being a ‘suit’ in a geek’s world and her career trajectory that led her to lead Percona. She also set the stage around the constraints that Percona has chosen for itself: To be completely open source and only sell services, and to be comp...
How to decide what goes into project and product with Mike Schwartz of Gluu
February 14, 2024 09:17 - 34 minutes - 64 MBIn this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with four-time entrepreneur Mike Schwartz, CEO and founder of Gluu as well as the host of Open Source Underdogs podcast, about his long career in entrepreneurship. Here’s some particularly interesting things to take out of this episode: “Beware an entrepreneur’s second company.” — Mike says his second company was a disaster because he tried to apply the lessons from the first company in the second, and often those lessons are...
OSFS Special Episode: Peter Zaitsev Talks Sales
February 12, 2024 09:52 - 33 minutes - 61.9 MBAs part of the preparation for Open Source Founders Summit, I’m interviewing both our speakers and our attendees for a special podcast that’s hyper focused on one thing. In this episode I spoke with Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona, about sales. We talked about the specifics of sales as a bootstrapped company — which means sales are exceptionally critical from the beginning, and how sales changed as the company moved from a consulting model to a support model on the open source sof...
Staying True to Your Community and Your Bottom Line with Garima Kapoor
February 07, 2024 08:30 - 39 minutes - 31.4 MBGarima Kapoor, COO and co-founder of MinIO, joins me to share her journey from investor and advisor to co-founder of MinIO and the wealth of knowledge she’s amassed along the way. In this episode, Garima explains how her experience in finance and belief in the power of open source helped MinIO to break into the data storage market. She also reviews the challenges she faced as a first-time founder and what others can learn from her mistakes and take away from some of their own. Sin...
Making the Critical Pivot from Closed to Open Source with Federico Wengi
January 31, 2024 08:30 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBToday I’m joined by Federico Wengi, who is a Partner at SquareOne VC. In this conversation, Federico sheds light on the conversations he’s had with many companies who consider making the pivot from a closed-source business strategy to an open-source strategy. Federico explains why it’s so uncommon for businesses to make that pivot, and lays out the challenges businesses face when they consider taking on such a change. Federico also gives a great example of a company that did success...
Emily Omier and Remy Bertot Talk About Open Source Founders Summit
January 29, 2024 09:03 - 12 minutes - 17 MBHow can we get founders of open source companies together to share ideas, share strategies and tactics and build a community not just of open source practitioners, but of open source business owners? We create a conference/summit/retreat to bring them together to learn and to work on their businesses together. At least that is the bet that Remy Bertot and I are making In this episode, I talked with Remy about Open Source Founders Summit, a summit they're organizing on May 27th and ...
Timing the Evolution of a Successful Open-Source Project with Ben Haynes
January 24, 2024 08:30 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBBen Haynes, the Founder and CEO of Directus, created an open-source project while working at his own agency in 2004. In this episode, we explore how he went from maintaining an open-source project to building an open-source company with a solid product-led growth strategy, and how he’s achieved success in the enterprise segment even as a small organization. Ben expands on how he feels open-source is the best way to start a business, and also reveals why timing and transparency can b...
The Human Cost of Increasing Freemium Users with Peer Richelsen
January 17, 2024 08:30 - 34 minutes - 27.6 MBPeer Richelsen is the Co-founder of Cal.com, an open-source calendar scheduling tool. This week, Peer and I discuss his personal experience with needing a customizable scheduling tool, the big leap from taking donations to running a profitable business, and the thought process behind seeking VC funding. Peer also talks about the major advantage of starting with only a paid version of the product in order to build a small community of super users. Lastly, I pick Peer’s brain about ho...
Balancing Community and Monetization in Open Source with Birthe Lindenthal
January 10, 2024 08:30 - 33 minutes - 26.7 MBBirthe Lindenthal is the Co-founder and CMO of OpenProject, a web-based project management system. On this episode, Birthe and I discuss the inception of the company, how being open source directly benefits both the business and its customers, and why the connection to their community is so strong. Plus, Birthe talks about the motivation she feels when contributing to something larger than herself, including the joy of knowing NGOs use her product for free. We also discuss the uniqu...
From 4,000 GitHub Stars to a Successful Open Source Business with Didier Lopes of OpenBB
January 03, 2024 08:30 - 35 minutes - 28.8 MBDidier Lopes, Co-founder and CEO of OpenBB, joins me to share the story of how OpenBB went from receiving 4000 GitHub stars in the first 24 hours of the project to a fully funded company launching new monetization initiatives. Didier and I chat about his background, what led him to start OpenBB in his spare time, and his vision for the company's future. He shares the story of teaming up with his co-founder, why he loves working in the open source ecosystem, and how his team contin...
How Useful Tools Create Brand Identity and Community with Loris Degioanni
December 27, 2023 08:30 - 37 minutes - 30.3 MBLoris Degioanni is the CEO and Founder of Sysdig, an open-source company working to make cloud deployment more secure through the use of runtime insights. Loris and I sit down to discuss the bet Sysdig is making to position itself as a leader in cloud security, how Loris leverages the power of a useful tool to create a brand, and the framework he uses to decide what should be open source and what should be paid for. Loris also shares an in-depth history of his previous company, Wire...
The Common Catch-22s of Open-Source Startups with Bob van Luijt
December 20, 2023 08:30 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBBob van Luijt is the CEO and Founder of Weaviate, an open-source vector database company that helps contribute to the advancement of AI technology. Throughout this episode, Bob and I discuss the complexities of moving from an open-source project to building an open-source company, and the challenges that come with monetization strategies. Bob shares insightful anecdotes around why it’s important to be careful that you’re measuring the right things for the right reasons, and also emp...
From Open-Source Side Project to Enterprise SaaS Solution with Ben Rometsch
December 13, 2023 08:30 - 39 minutes - 32 MBBen Rometsch is the CEO and Founder of Flagsmith, an open-source feature flagging platform. In this conversation, we explore how he landed on the idea to develop an open-source feature flagging project and how that has snowballed into running a full-time SaaS company. Ben describes the challenges of creating a SaaS company from the ground up, especially when it comes to pricing and monetizing. We also discuss the importance of understanding and choosing the right licensing for your ...
Monetizing Open-Source Contributions Through Crypto with Max Howell
December 06, 2023 08:30 - 39 minutes - 55.6 MBMax Howell is the CEO of Tea, a revolutionary open-source project that is seeking to help open-source contributors get paid for their work through crypto. Throughout our conversation, Max explains how he’s created some prolific open-source projects but was still unable to monetize them to the point where open source could be his full-time job, and how that provided the inspiration for Tea. Max and I discuss the importance of re-framing open-source projects in business terms of value...
Creating a Greener World Through Open-Source Software with Nicolas Höning
November 29, 2023 08:30 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBNicolas Höning is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seita, an open-source energy optimization and digitalization company. Nicolas took an unconventional path to founding an open-source startup, and throughout this episode he describes how creating a greener world through open-source software is more than a business endeavor for him - it’s a personal mission. Nicolas describes perfectly the challenges that open-source founders face, and is transparent on the decisions he’s still weighing wh...
Creating a Movement through Community with Jono Bacon
November 22, 2023 08:30 - 39 minutes - 54 MBJono Bacon’s passion for building communities has been a driving force in a career taken him from Canonical to GitHub to founding the Community Leadership Core community accelerator. In this episode, Jono shares his definition of community, how a community can create a movement and the differences between the two. We also get a bit of insight into how he developed his passion for building communities and why he continues helping companies build and support theirs through the Communi...
Mitigating the Risks of an Acquisition with Michael Cheng
November 15, 2023 08:30 - 37 minutes - 30.3 MBMichael Cheng is an M&A Specialist who has had an extensive career that includes a former stint at Facebook as a Product Manager and his current role as a Lawyer. In this episode, Michael returns to the show to have an in-depth discussion around acquisitions. Michael shares his thoughts on why most acquisitions leave everyone involved feeling unsatisfied, and what he thinks should be done by both parties to mitigate the high failure rate of acquisitions. We also chat about the commo...
A Second-Time Founder’s First Foray Into Open Source with Lars Kamp
November 08, 2023 08:30 - 33 minutes - 27 MBLars Kamp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Some Engineering, the makers of Resoto. In this episode, Lars describes what he’s learned from founding and working at multiple start-ups, as well as the main differentiators he’s experienced founding his first open-source startup. Lars describes his though process when it comes to selecting co-founders, and illustrates why it’s even more important to be discerning when selecting investors. Lars and I also discuss the advantages that open-sourc...
Advice for Open-Source Founders from a Seed-Stage VC with Amanda “Robby” Robson
November 01, 2023 07:30 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBAmanda “Robby” Robson is a Partner at Cowboy Ventures and the co-host of the Open Source Startup Podcast. In this episode, Robby shares insights on what she’s looking for in open-source founders to potentially invest in, including the importance of being able to manage both your community and your paid model simultaneously. Robby and I also discuss the importance and pitfalls of choosing a monetization strategy, as well as the dangers of having too many monetization models too soon....
Bridging the Knowledge Gap on Community Data with Daniel Izquierdo
October 25, 2023 07:30 - 29 minutes - 41.3 MBDaniel Izquierdo is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bitergia, an open-source company that provides software development data and analytics. In this episode, we connect at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao to discuss how he went from working in academia to co-founding an open-source company. Throughout our conversation, Daniel shares interesting anecdotes on the unique journey he’s taken to build Bitergia, including why they haven’t focused on growing fast so much as they have focused on gr...
How Not to Make Open Source with Leszek Manicki
October 18, 2023 07:30 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MBLeszek Manicki is the Engineering Manager at Wikimedia Germany. In this episode, we connect at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao to discuss what he has learned being a part of Wikimedia movement and how that inspired his talk at the summit, How Not To Make Open Source. Throughout our conversation, Leszek describes the challenges Wikimedia has experienced in trying to get more contributors to their projects while also having a high security standard and a complex architecture. He also...
Getting The Most Out of Open-Source Events with Brian Proffitt
October 11, 2023 07:30 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBBrian Proffitt is the Senior Manager of Community Outreach at Red Hat’s OSPO. In this episode, we connect at the Open Source Summit EU to discuss how Brian uses events to drive both lead generation and community-building efforts. Throughout our conversation, Brian describes how measuring the ROI of an event can be tricky and why it’s important to look at events as a long game strategy. We also discuss why events provide some of the most valuable feedback when testing your positionin...
Embracing Product-Led Growth in Open Source with Kim McMahon
October 04, 2023 07:30 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBKim McMahon is the leader of Open Source Marketing & Community at Outshift by Cisco, which is Cisco’s emerging technologies and innovation unit. We recorded this episode at Open Source Summit EU, and talked about Kim’s strategies and tactics related to helping guide users to the correct edition of your product — ie, decide whether the open source option or a commercial option is best for them. Kim talked about the tricky balance open-source companies must strike between embracing o...
Shifting a Go-To-Market Strategy from Services to Product-Led with Alexander Krüger
September 27, 2023 07:30 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MBAlexander Krüger is the Co-Founder and CEO of United Manufacturing Hub, an open-source company that develops software for the manufacturing industry. Throughout our conversation, Alexander describes the unusual path he took in going from a services-based consulting company to a product-led company. He also describes the opportunities and challenges of selling open-source software to an industry that has historically been slow to adopt new technology, as well as his choice to hone a ...
A Case Against Starting Your SaaS as an Open-Source Company with Steven Renwick
September 20, 2023 07:30 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBThis week I’m chatting with Steven Renwick, CEO of Tilores. As you’ll hear in the episode, we connected when I mistook Tilores for an open-source company. Steven graciously agreed to come on the show to discuss why they decided against making the product open source — which is actually a conversation worth having, and one that open source founders should probably have more often. There are a few options for companies building SaaS tools to solve problems for engineers and enterpri...
Philippe Humeau on Creating Fair Exchanges in Open-Source Business Models
September 13, 2023 07:30 - 40 minutes - 32.5 MBPhilippe Humeau is the CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdSec, an open-source security company with a very unique business model that doesn’t fit the usual open source patterns. Philippe talked about how to focus on providing a fair exchange of value between maintainers / open source companies and users, and how to monetize a project that is providing value for free. Philippe also talked about why he thinks open-source founders are under more pressure to get their business model right at t...
Samuel Stroschein on the Challenges and Opportunities of Localization
September 06, 2023 07:30 - 32 minutes - 46.2 MBSamuel Stroschein is the CEO and Founder of inlang, an open-source company that is looking to not only make localization easy for developers, but also to help companies achieve revenue growth through localization. I was particularly excited to talk to Samuel because, back in my way back past, I was a translator, so I’m always interested in solutions that exist to facilitate translation; but also because localizing software is a good example of the intersection between business pro...
Kevin Muller on Seeking Out Harsh Feedback and Commercializing too Soon
August 30, 2023 07:30 - 35 minutes - 28.2 MBKevin Muller is the CEO and co-founder of Passbolt, a security-first, open-source password manager, and he joined me to talk about the risks of having too much time and money, the value of getting trashed on social media and why he values in-person interactions with the team. There were a lot of interesting pieces to pick apart from this episode. First of all, Kevin talked about the importance of not commercializing too early. I think he's the only founder I've ever heard say some...
Venture Capitalist Tim Chen on the Nuances of Founding an Open Source Startup
August 23, 2023 07:30 - 38 minutes - 31.3 MBTim Chen is a Partner at Essence VC and also the Co-Host of the Open Source Startup Podcast. Through these channels, he has the opportunity to speak with a broad variety of open source startups. Throughout our conversation, we explore the patterns that Tim sees in the open source startup space. Tim talked about how too many founders take the decision to build an open source company too lightly and the path that he would take if he were to start a venture-backed open source startup t...
CEO Franz Karlsberger on Joining an Open-Source Start-Up to Scale Growth
August 16, 2023 07:30 - 33 minutes - 48.2 MBFranz Karlsberger is the CEO of Amazee.io, an open-source platform that seeks to make developers’ lives easier by abstracting their day-to-day workload. Throughout our conversation, we explore what it means to join an open-source start-up as an external CEO, and why Franz put so much emphasis on go-to-market strategy. Franz also walks through the importance of knowing what open-source business model your company will follow, and how to measure the success of an open-source project. ...
Two-time founder Vlad A. Ionescu on finding success after repeated entrepreneurial failures
August 09, 2023 07:30 - 42 minutes - 34.2 MBIt’s kind of a cliche, Vlad A. Ionescu, founder and CEO of Earthly, says, but his first attempts to build something really awesome focused on amazing technology. With hindsight, he doesn’t think it’s so surprising that those efforts weren’t successful. It’s not that passion doesn’t matter, but rather that he had to learn to build things that inspired passion from both the market and the builders. We also talked about: Leaving a job, blowing through his savings, going back to a job ...
Exploring the European Open Source Ecosystem with Markus Düttmann
August 02, 2023 07:30 - 23 minutes - 34.6 MBMarkus Düttmann, a former Principal at Nauta Capital, is steeped in the European open source scene. From his beginnings in theoretical physics, Düttmann’s hard pivot into venture capital funding granted him a spot in the developing tech world as a connoisseur of the culture and a champion for start-ups. He even contributed to Nauta Capital’s European Open Source Report detailing the state of the ecosystem as of October 2022. On this episode of the Business of Open Source, listen to...
Demystifying Code Bases with Shanea Leven of CodeSee
July 26, 2023 07:30 - 33 minutes - 47.8 MBThis week Shanea Leven, CEO and Co-Founder of CodeSee, joins me to chat about demystifying code bases and building an effective team. In this episode of The Business of Open Source, Shanea and I discuss the origins of her company, CodeSee, how it morphed from a training course to a SaaS product, and how they contribute to open source even though CodeSee is not an open source company. Shanea also shares valuable insight into working closely with your spouse, the importance of commun...
Building and Maintaining a Global Open Source Data Platform with Heikki Nousiainen
July 19, 2023 07:30 - 23 minutes - 34.7 MBThis week Heikki Nousiainen, CTO and Co-founder of Aiven, joins me to chat about building the business, his passion for open source and entrepreneurship, and his hopes for the future of open source in the public sector. In this episode, Heikki and I explore the successes and challenges he and his three co-founders encountered in creating and maintaining their global open source data platform. We discuss how they choose technologies to support, the importance of customer demand, ho...
Open Source in a Large Organization with Michael Cheng
July 12, 2023 07:30 - 28 minutes - 52.5 MBMichael Cheng, Chief Legal Officer at Aalyria Technologies, is a master at strategy and execution for open-source products and companies. From his humble beginning spearheading the open source team at Meta (formerly Facebook), Cheng has honed his knowledge about the interworking of open source and utilizes it to its fullest potential. In this episode of The Business of Open Source, Cheng talks about his time as Meta's lead in open source as well as what it's like to be an individua...
Finding the Right Co-Founder With Tanis Jorge
July 05, 2023 07:30 - 31 minutes - 58.1 MBAre you struggling to find a co-founder? Having trouble navigating a relationship with your partners? These are all questions Tanis Jorge, CEO of The Co-founder's Hub, tackles daily in her work. A serial tech entrepreneur and a leading entrepreneur advisor, it is no wonder Jorge has founded and built many businesses, such as Trulioo and IQuiri Inc. On this episode of The Business Of Open Source, I ask Jorge about finding the right co-founder, why legal frameworks are so important, ...
Striving for a Frictionless Developer Experience through AI Workflows with Kyle Campbell
June 28, 2023 07:30 - 32 minutes - 46.3 MBFrom college dropout to developer efficiency guru, Kyle Campbell knows his way around workflow integrations for software companies. He is a fierce proponent of efficient workflows and hopes to spread his experience to any company that can benefit from it. In this episode of the Business of Open Source, Campbell discusses the origins of his Company CTO.ai, its revenue model, and why he created this AI companion for developers. He also talks about being a consultant, running a start...
Ethics In Open Source With Matt Butcher
June 21, 2023 07:30 - 37 minutes - 53 MBMatt Butcher is no stranger to the ways of ethical philosophy. With a Ph.D. in Religion and Computer Science, he enjoys philosophical conversations of ethical dilemmas. Butcher passionately debates wild theories and paradoxical situations against those not afraid to question reality in pursuit of knowledge. In this episode of The Business of Open Source, Hear how Butcher discusses ethics in the open source world, the grey areas in being an ethical company, and the moral nature of w...