Ask Slashdot: Viable Open Source Models For Early Startups? 203
New submitter rchoetzlein writes "I am a software developer working independently for five years on various projects, and preparing to go public with my first product. Everyone is telling me I should make it open source. I would love to, but I just don't see how an early startup can afford to become profitable on service alone. My projects are no longer small-scale hobbies, they are large frameworks, and I need to make a living. Any ideas on business models that would allow me to open source while guaranteeing I can feed myself?"
Re:This is how our start-up handles it (Score:3, Funny)
Redhat, is that you?
It's an interesting troll (Score:5, Funny)
No one gives a motherfuck what you think about anything. You're pissed because someone is making a profit while you eat shit sandwiches with your other open sores buddies. Go fuck yourself, fucktard. Fuck you in the ass!
I hope more open sores projects go this way. Turning that faggot shit into nothing more than a gateway to real code instead of the dick smoker version.
This is actually pretty interesting. This guy has spent a lot of time hating open source projects. "Open sores" - coming up with that means he's been spending a lot of time thinking about/hating open source projects. It's actually fairly clever. And the level of hate is impressive too. "Go fuck yourself, fucktard. Fuck you in the ass!" Usually you only get this level of anger if you shoot someone's dog or something. That's how much this guy hates open source projects.
But - and here's the interesting part - he sounds teenager-ish age. Early 20's at best. "Turning that faggot shit..." That kind of a thing. This is some kid somewhere. But he's mad about something that should only upset CEOs and CTOs, free software eating into a profit margin. What kid of his age cares about that? It's like having Bill and Ted give a state of the union speech.
It would be fascinating to know exactly why this kid hates open source so much. Did Richard Stallman run over his grandma or something? Was he a fifteen year old Wunderkind that had a million dollar startup that got shot down because someone put a similar app on SourceForge? Was his mother frightened by a picture of Linus Torvalds while she was pregnant with him?