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| # Table of Content | |
| ## Who am I | |
| ### My OSS Projects / Contributions | |
| - Tidepool | |
| - OpenDrive | |
| - Boardgamers | |
| - Pokemon Online | |
| - HexEngine | |
| ## What's Open Source | |
| ### Philosophy | |
| Check wikipedia | |
| ### Notable OSS projects | |
| - Linux | |
| - Github (hosting) | |
| - React, Angular, Vue | |
| - NodeJS | |
| - Firefox, Chromium | |
| - Android | |
| - LibreOffice | |
| - MongoDB, Qt, PostgreSQL | |
| - VS Code | |
| - Most NPM packages | |
| - ElasticSearch | |
| ## Fears, and why you shouldn't be afraid to OSS | |
| - Paranoia that code is stolen | |
| - support from community | |
| - large numbers of programmers in the world, including users | |
| ### Exceptions | |
| - Games - better not OS your game, especially if online multiplayer | |
| - Proprietary algorithms | |
| ## It's possible to OSS and make money | |
| ### Working paying OSS software | |
| - Lichess: through website | |
| - Tidepool (full corporate): through the data | |
| - Elasticsearch: through paid support / consulting | |
| - SerenityOS: through sponsoring | |
| - MongoDB: Through managed hosting (but the hosting solution is closed source) | |
| ### A valid model | |
| - Get support from the community | |
| - Get support from developers | |
| ## When to OSS? | |
| Some examples: | |
| - you make a tool which is not your end product (eg bootstrap, react, angular, npm modules) and do not want to maintain it all by yourself | |
| - tools to interface with your products | |
| - public recognition (hacktoberfest) | |
| - Cool way to test a new tech & show off | |
| ## Risks when OSSing | |
| ### Need to maintain | |
| - Example: underscore vs lodash | |
| - It's hard to find maintainers (redis) and not fun | |
| - No challenge - need to find motivation with community, use of new tech, ... | |
| ### Split in ideology | |
| - Node split into io | |
| - Bitcoin core / Bitcoin cash | |
| # Licences | |
| - GPL | |
| - AGPL | |
| - MIT | |
| - UNLICENSED |