I feel the story of Redis is also a somewhat cautionary tale of the decoupling of value creation and value capture in open source - having a company monetize a product by someone else and ultimately employing its creator.
Now I understand that the people that are passionate about creating OSS are often less passionate about business and vice versa - and that some of the most successful tech companies have the Jobs/Wozniak dynamic - but it still feels like an imbalance worth addressing.
But maybe I'm just cynical and lacking idealism. How's everyone else feeling about this?
Generations of people who have come up with ideas for institutions have had them sold off to the highest bidder and not seen but a fraction of the value their idea has created.
It's the nature of having the money to start, run, develop a business. Having enough capital to make a very big risk less risky.
Totally agree but the tech industry is extremely capital and relationship-oriented so I don't see a way out of that. I just wish this fact would be better advertised so that people wouldn't waste their lives in this industry.
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I feel the story of Redis is also a somewhat cautionary tale of the decoupling of value creation and value capture in open source - having a company monetize a product by someone else and ultimately employing its creator.
Now I understand that the people that are passionate about creating OSS are often less passionate about business and vice versa - and that some of the most successful tech companies have the Jobs/Wozniak dynamic - but it still feels like an imbalance worth addressing.
But maybe I'm just cynical and lacking idealism. How's everyone else feeling about this?
It's not just in tech/open source though.
Generations of people who have come up with ideas for institutions have had them sold off to the highest bidder and not seen but a fraction of the value their idea has created.
It's the nature of having the money to start, run, develop a business. Having enough capital to make a very big risk less risky.
Totally agree but the tech industry is extremely capital and relationship-oriented so I don't see a way out of that. I just wish this fact would be better advertised so that people wouldn't waste their lives in this industry.