💠opensource strategies - Its anything but black and white

Open-source is interesting from product and business strategy point of view. People always ask for a cookie-cutter approach to open-source, this approach is less than optimal. Open-source strategy is highly subjective to business and goals it is trying to achieve. Identifying the parameters is a key starting point. We will discuss more on parameters and key insights it gives and modulates the Open-source policy.

How tech-savvy is the target end-user?

If developers are the audience, they might be more effective in consuming your products offering where they understand the source-code and identify succinct integration points, some of them might even want to modify your offering to fit their needs. Source-level engagement is the way to go in such scenarios. Open-source processes have proven to be best in town for source based collaboration. Don't get me wrong, I did not say put it out in public, well not yet. It can be using open-source collaboration tools, SaaS products for infrastructure to enable the end users.

Should you opt to use public open source methods to host source-code?

Lets talk about it in next post!