masbicudo

Hmm... it seems to me that's a specific of that kind of business. But it's good to know about these failures, and their circumstances.

Great thread. Thanks!

We thought about using the framework and components to make an app and sell that instead. The only downside is that we'd have to focus on two things now: the open source core framework and components, and the proprietary app. On the other hand, what you said makes sense, maybe an app is a better starting point in terms of strategy. We'd have to think what kind of app we could build too... these decisions are giving me a lot of headaches (in the literal meaning of it).

My god!!! I've always been a big fan of Attlassian... but I could never imagine it was a $3bi business. That's a powerful example. Thanks!

Our focus is in enterprise solutions for now... but it could interest individuals building web applications.

We also thought that a good option would be to make it all open source, and build our own applications with that. These applications would be our source of income, instead of the core framework and components.

I was thinking on making it all GPL, and sell services/support, so that enterprises could use it internally or externally on GPLed software, but when they needed to build closed source external software, they'd buy a license.

There is a problem with GPL though: we cannot sell licenses if we merge in other contributors code, because we wouldn't have the copyright to license that under another license other than GPL. That wouldn't be a problem if we never accept contributions.

We could also sell support, consulting, build up entire software solutions... the problem then is time. At this moment there is only me and a friend in the project.