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