Episode 94: Open Source Business Models with Dirk Riehle

In this episode we're talking to Dirk Riehle about open source
business models. We started looking at the way OS projects work and
defined different kinds of open source projects. In the main part
of the discussion we looked at various ways of how to make money
with open source: consulting, support contracts, commercial variant
of an open source project, etc. We then looked at the chances and
risks of each of these approaches. The next part focused on
different open source licenses and how they are suitable for open
source business. We concluded the episode by discussing a couple of
specific questions and loose ends. After the show, Dirk informed me
about the following three corrections: Black Duck Software's main
product is called protexIP not IP Central, there are
presently 70 licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative, and
EnterpriseDB has so far acquired $37M in venture capital