Podcasts Technology The Cloudcast The Cloudcast #256 - Can Open Source Companies Make Money?

The Cloudcast #256 - Can Open Source Companies Make Money?

Published: June 16, 2016, 4 a.m.

b'Brian talks with Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco, Technology Fellow at @BatteryVentures) about the recent Battery Ventures Open Source Summit (#BVOSS), trends in open source business models and how VC are thinking about investing in companies that leverage open source software.
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  • Topic 1 - It\\u2019s been awhile since you were on last. What are you focus areas these days?
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  • Topic 2 - Related to OSS-centric companies, Aaron and I discuss the \\u201cwill they make any money\\u201d question all the time. BV had an event focused on this recently. What was the event?
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  • Topic 3 - There seemed to be a theme that OSS projects need to be delivered as-a-service. I saw a tweet that said, \\u201cUber theme at #bvoss today: we need an OSS license that prevents AWS to make money off of our OSS code.\\u201d \\n
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  • Topic 4 - There were several large end-customers (e.g. - banks) in attendance, talking about their OSS projects. Are they making any significant contributions to these projects, or is this mostly an effort to help them hire developers?
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  • Topic 5 - So what were the major takeaways from the conference?\\n
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