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Thoughts on an Open Source Company

40 pointsby jlhamiltonover 15 years ago

7 comments

briancooleyover 15 years ago
The never fire, never layoff policies make it critical to hire the right people. Wonder if that causes stress. It would keep me awake at night.
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yungchinover 15 years ago
Noble thoughts. I'm not a lawyer, so this is mostly a question: if you're dealing in open-source only, and your product is service, wouldn't it make sense to form a partnership firm?<p>All the things he talks about - a sense of ownership, people managing their own affairs, shared responsibilities - are made explicit when you do it that way, right?
va_coderover 15 years ago
Here's a snapshot of their quarterly earnings report:<p>"Good morning and thank you for your interest in our company. I'm happy to announce that over the past 3 months we have seen a 5% yoy increase in Git commits and a whopping 25% increase in refactorings..."
davidwover 15 years ago
I don't know, it all sounds a bit too good to be true. I love working on open source software myself, so I wish them the best of luck, though, because if it works out, it sounds like a dream company.
baluover 15 years ago
I really would like to start a company with quite the same rules. Perhaps I should start by getting my ass up and contributing more to open source software.
tjrover 15 years ago
I've seen a few open source companies that wound up being successful... when just starting out, how do you find paying clients to do services for?
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marcusestesover 15 years ago
They're eventually going to need (and want) someone to run the sales pipeline.
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