{"id":5104,"date":"2014-02-18T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2014-02-18T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:43:35","slug":"open-source-startups-dont-try-to-be-red-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/open-source-startups-dont-try-to-be-red-hat.php","title":{"rendered":"Open source startups: Don&#8217;t try to be Red Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Feb 17, 2014, 11:00 (0 Talkback[s])  <\/p>\n<p>    None of these companies sell software; they don't even sell    platforms. Rather, each has built a business that's powered by    open source software, and each has gone on to create new    projects that developers all over the world want to use. Those    developers don't compete with them. Rather, they have a vested    interest in the code they are using, so they fix bugs and    develop features.  <\/p>\n<p>    When smart developers do that, they realize that contributing    back to the original project makes more sense than sustaining a    fork of the code themselves. Thus, they contribute. Some model    this as a \"gift economy\" -- and there's no doubt that a sense    of community is important for open source developers. But    fundamentally this is about self-interest and making sure the    code ends up in a place where the most people will be motivated    to use and maintain it.  <\/p>\n<p>        Complete Story  <\/p>\n<p>    Related Stories:  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxtoday.com\/developer\/open-source-startups-dont-try-to-be-red-hat.html\" title=\"Open source startups: Don't try to be Red Hat\">Open source startups: Don't try to be Red Hat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Feb 17, 2014, 11:00 (0 Talkback[s]) None of these companies sell software; they don't even sell platforms. Rather, each has built a business that's powered by open source software, and each has gone on to create new projects that developers all over the world want to use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}