What is the best in-depth up-to-date survey of the various models that individuals and companies have used to earn money from (or on top of) open source software, and the ups and down thereof? The last thing I saw that I would call systematic was an internal study at a big tech company seven years ago (so not shareable or citable), and even then it documented 20+ approaches. Pointers welcome - thanks. #opensource
@osi I sent an email to the license-discuss list (I’m a member of the list), but I can’t tell whether the list actually got it. It doesn’t show up in the archives (nothing from May is in the archives, but maybe no mail has been sent this month?): https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/
Who should I contact to find out if the message was actually received? Maybe there’s moderation happening, and no one has approved it yet?
@ramsey if the message was held in moderation you should have received a notification. There are no messages held in moderation at the moment. Can you please try sending the message again?
@RL_Dane those are important topics that are covered in separate threads. The workshop was about building collectively the explanation of the Open Source AI Definition, the FAQ document. Follow the public discussion on discuss.opensource.org
If you insist that "open source" be spelled without a hyphen, and you would write a sentence like "she is a well known mostly self taught guitar teacher" ... then you, my friend, may not be an expert on hyphenation.
@jwf@xahteiwi Open Source is always spelled without a hyphen. We'll publish soon the definitive answer to why that is (spoiler: the answer is not "because we say so")
@wyatt_was@socallinuxexpo Not at the moment as handling inventories is complicated and expensive for a small organization like ours (we'd have to drop some other activities.) But these received positive feedback so... we're thinking about it :)
@bjoern@trekman10 correct! We use https://brid.gy to collect reactions (likes and reposts) and comments, too from ActivityPub, other websites that support Webmentions and we started experimenting with Bluesky, too. We'll see how that works.
"We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used OSS is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value [replacement value for each firm that uses the software] is much larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist."