Open Source Questions

I am a freelance developer and I basically develop ERP, graphics software, components, web and other such things. I always thought about an open source development of the software that I basically...

Open Source

asked Jan 4 '11 at 04:43

Vinod Maurya
123 points

I like the idea of open source collaboration and making our code for our application we are building public on github. This would allow people to give their input and even allow certain parts of...

Competition Open Source Web App

asked Jan 11 '11 at 07:25

User6488
31 points

I'm searching for a website to start a new open source project--I want to start the developing of a "Sport Training Log". I have some software development skills, but not everything I need (I...

Open Source Project

asked Dec 20 '10 at 21:24

Boos
111 points

Over the past two years, I've developed a relatively successful WordPress plugin. It started out as a hobby project, but now I'd like to try and turn it into a business. About the plugin Checks...

Monetization Open Source Wordpress

asked Dec 3 '10 at 04:03

Janis Elsts
146 points

I'm negotiating a B2B licensing deal for some technology. I typically license it as a managed service, and don't share code, because I want to protect trade secrets. A new potential client is...

License Open Source Licensing SLA

asked Dec 3 '10 at 12:21

John
96 points

It's interesting how an open source product has a commercial version, nice business strategy to get market penetration! How did Magento create an commercial Enterprise version when magento is open...

Software License Open Source

asked Oct 19 '10 at 01:04

Blankman
131 points

I want to start an online magazine website and I'd like to know what platform to use. Something like Wordpress, Drupal, and other CMS systems, any recommendations?

Software Technology Website Open Source CMS

asked Sep 22 '10 at 23:54

Alexandru Trandafir Catalin
157 points

I've outsourced the creation of Web Spy Pro (www.webspypro.com) last year. It's a Webanalytics software that record/play the visitor mouse movements, so you can see exactly what visitors are doing...

Development Open Source Web App

asked Jul 15 '10 at 05:10

Dennis
176 points

I've been working on a free and open-source wiki application since 2006 (that's 4 years!), and now my startup has taken over the development. Well, at least "officially". We make several thousands...

Business Model Open Source

asked Apr 5 '10 at 23:17

Deleted
655 points

I still don't get the behavior or motivation behind people developing pieces for your game(software) for free... why would anybody do that?

Open Source Crowdsourcing

asked Apr 10 '10 at 22:05

Raed
101 points

Sorry for asking such a simple question, but what does it mean to opensource a platform?

Open Source Platforms

asked Feb 25 '10 at 06:57

Raed
101 points

I have a reasonably successful open-source project ( www.mediabrowser.tv ). The website is seeing over 50K unique visitors a month. I would like to monetize some of this traffic by offering a...

Open Source

asked Feb 17 '10 at 15:00

Sam Saffron
432 points

Many companies going to the opensource route these days. Jetbrains is one example of a company that opensourced their well reknown IntelliJ IDEA after been commercializing it. Some company has...

Marketing Open Source

asked Dec 23 '09 at 10:12

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I'm considering building an community over Pinax. The out-of-the-box functionality covers maybe 60% of what we need to do. We're more than happy to debug and support the base code set but need to...

License Copyright Open Source

asked Dec 11 '09 at 17:53

Puk
81 points