I still struggle with this moral question; as a small company we are relaint on OSS, primarily from a flexibility perspective, as we use and hack toghther various tools to replicate some of the bigger enterprise offerings.
We dont make money from these tools, but use them to make our little company's services stand out against the huge corporates we often compete with.
Whilst my heart would love to share some of what we do, my head knows that could be commercial suicide should a bigger player take our hacked up solutions and apply suitable polish.
I'm hoping as we grow and have an inhouse development capability we can offer some of the older solutions back, as our levels of innovation will keep a competitive edge.
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I still struggle with this moral question; as a small company we are relaint on OSS, primarily from a flexibility perspective, as we use and hack toghther various tools to replicate some of the bigger enterprise offerings.
We dont make money from these tools, but use them to make our little company's services stand out against the huge corporates we often compete with.
Whilst my heart would love to share some of what we do, my head knows that could be commercial suicide should a bigger player take our hacked up solutions and apply suitable polish.
I'm hoping as we grow and have an inhouse development capability we can offer some of the older solutions back, as our levels of innovation will keep a competitive edge.
This must be a common problem?
If our little company was big enough for a dev or 2, we'd be a 10. For now, its about advocacy and using where possible.