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License Zero retweeted
JetBrains, a Prague based developer tools company behind IntelliJ, in 2018:
$270M revenue/ 33% growth
$100M net income/ $134M free cash flow
6M users/ 405k customers
$0 raised since founding in 2000
The developer tools market is enormous and can enable impressive businesses.
License Zero retweeted
We're happy to announce that we have released the iOS app #PlasticBullet under the @LicenseZero prosperity license.
The next release of the app, will bring improved support for modern devices and iOS 13.
Customers have a right to improve the software they have purchased.
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I've open-sourced @ZincCoop's first "actually-in-production" product: #WeGotYourBackToday using the @LicenseZero Prosperity license.
#WeGotYourBackToday is a very-minimal, community-source alternative to HelpScout and Intercom: wandering.shop/@zee/10302560…
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The cat’s out of the bag! The first Statiq Framework alphas are now finally on NuGet, licensed under @LicenseZero Prosperity: open use for non-commercial, small license fee for commercial use. Lots more to do before 1.0 final but feels great to get alphas out there.
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Open revenue sharing lets you set your share with the platform to anything, including 0%. I'm happy to support developers who need it, but very concerned about sellers who take advantage of it. Here's a graph showing percent of transactions that use 0% revenue share by month
License Zero retweeted
“A classic pattern in technology economics is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus”
gwern.net/Complement
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The "Zero" in "License Zero" stands for zero friction. Watch @luis_in_brief talk friction, open source, and funding, with a shoutout to the project: youtube.com/watch?v=qvB_PZHJ…
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I've been watching @LicenseZero developing with fascination. If this became the new norm, it could really shake things up. It's a license that outright charges for-profit companies to use OSS. Yet, it's quick, automated, cheap, overall no hassle. guide.licensezero.com/
License Zero retweeted
License Zero looks super promising. Great work, @kemitchell. This guide makes it much easier to understand (and more *concrete*) than previous attempts to explain it.
guide.licensezero.com
I'm always happy to see experimentation with different open source funding models 🤑
