Open Source Survival: A Story from the Trenches

After a career of a quarter of a century in tech, of which more than twenty years in open source, I looked back at how I survived as an open source developer while being chased by zombies and vampires.

• The zombies were after my brains: They claimed that intellectual property was evil, and that software should be free, not commercial.
• The vampires were after my blood. They wanted to commercially benefit from the intellectual property I produced without giving anything back.

I started with the motto "No Money, No Worries" but reality taught me that I was quite naïve. I was forced into building a business, and over the years, I discovered eight ways to monetize an open source project.

Watch my video or read my article here: Open Source Survival: A Story from the Trenches.