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What frameworks do you use to decide when a dev tool should remain open-source vs. commercialized?

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  1. Vik Chaudhary
    Vik Chaudhary

    The Biological Computing Company VP Products and Strategic Partnerships • 6mo

    Use these principles to make the decision on whether you launch a dev-tool as open-source vs commercial: You need to build your brand: you want to establish a brand of helpfulness within the developer community, and so you open-source products to give back to the community. You want to generate demand: open-source when you want to customers hooked into the product, get early feedback, and lock-in using a moat (data, integration, viral usage within the customer's org). You have a tiered monetizat ...Read More

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