Code on the Table: Open Source Business Models

Let's openly discuss the challenges and benefits of open source business models.

Our speakers:

• Chip Childers, Executive Director at Cloud Foundry Foundation
• Tyler Jewell, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital
• Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Creator of Jenkins, Co-CEO at Launchable
• Chris Wright, Senior VP and CTO at RedHat

Topics of discussion:

• Path of free software, from origins to commercialization. How have the dynamics changed?
• Differences in demand for maintainers, contributors, users - what kind of engagement should a startup be looking for?
• Partnerships: Collaborating with your community instead of competing with it
• Digital transformations: How should enterprise teams evaluate open source projects?
• Digital transformations: How should enterprise developers alleviate security risks when using open source projects?
• How can open core survive Amazon? (e.g. AWS Elasticsearch)
• Is there more pressure for developer tools to be free? Will this trend diffuse to other types of software?

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