Seonglae ChoFor individual, open source library is enough. You don’t need to open application source code if you want to make money
Using open source software doesn't entitle one to a vote on the direction of that project. Democratic decision-making never existed in the open source world. Open source is first and foremost a method of collaboration between programmers who show up to do the work.
Open Source Project Usages
Corporate participation in open source involves hiring maintainers and exerting influence on projects, and through strategic intervention in project direction and license changes, they can sometimes have a negative governance impact on the open source community.
In other words, since open source is not a corporation and is vulnerable to capital attacks, we need to be conscious of reducing our dependence on corporate influence in the commons.
Open Source Software and Corporate Influence — Andrew Lilley Brinker
Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of corporations. We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly, and build or modify power structures to be more resilient to corporate capture.
https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/open-source-software-and-corporate-influence/
Open source is not a business model
Open Source is not a Business Model
So you're starting a company and you want an Open Source business model, eh? Let's talk about what that means, and how that statement is both totally valid, and makes no sense at the same time.
https://cra.mr/open-source-is-not-a-business-model/
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no matter how often it is repeated). And I think the problem ste...
https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-is-neither-a-community-nor-a-democracy-606abdab
2022
The best open source software of 2022
InfoWorld’s 2022 Bossie Awards celebrate the most important and innovative application development, devops, data analytics, and machine learning tools of the year.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3676829/the-best-open-source-software-of-2022.html
Fork
Those who have maintained forks of OSS at work, what was your experience like?
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https://lobste.rs/s/yav1ky/those_who_have_maintained_forks_oss_at
Monetising
Balancing Growth and Sustainability - Avalonia's Financial Evolution
Discussing the challenges of monetising open-source software and how we're handling Avalonia's rapid growth and revenue diversification.
https://avaloniaui.net/Blog/balancing-growth-and-sustainability-avalonia-s-financial-evolution
Open source is one person
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the software running THE WHOLE F*CKING PLANET is written by one person. In a country. But we have no idea which country. It’s not the same person mind you, but it’s one person.
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/
