Long-term sustainability
As highlighted earlier, there can be several factors that influence sustainability; we will start with one of the most important considerations, economic viability.
A business model is a systematic way of creating long-term value by monetizing a product and its features. On the other hand, an OSS licensing model and the collaborative way of developing applications have given rise to a whole industry on top of which business models have been built, which we call open source business models. One question you might have is how these companies monetize OSS. The rise of monetizing open source has grown leaps and bounds with DevOps, and different types of business models have been adopted. One way to visualize the worth of commercial open source companies is through the COSS Index. It is a public Google sheet and is accessible here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17nKMpi_Dh5slCqzLSFBoWMxNvWiwt2R-t4e_l7LPLhU/edit#gid=0. Let’s have a look at a few...
