Stories of successful open source business models
Many of developers, who seek a good business model to their startups or companies, considered OSS isn’t profitable, but that is wrong. Companies can grow with open source at the heart of their business model. If you’d like to build a business around open source, here are four successful models to consider. 1- Support and services Model Red Hat is the most obvious proof that selling open source software can be profitable. Like Canonical, it offers its software for free and charges enterprise users for technical support services. Red Hat also sells subscriptions to its “premium” distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which appeals to enterprise users due to its rigorous […]
How a 17yo developer jump-started his career with Open Source and earn money!
My name is Muhammed Nagy. I’m a 17 years old Backend developer (mostly Ruby on Rails).I’m passionate about Programming and Technology. I have a good experience with managing Linux Servers and web servers aiming to be Software Developer by day and a system administrator by night I wasn’t able to work online for more than 2 years. I applied to lots of jobs on freelancing websites like Upwork and Freelancer. How did I start? A potential client talked with me about his job and then he gave me an offer and I accepted it. I finished my school exams and worked hard for 2 weeks. I worked on fixing […]
LET’S ENCRYPT: how an open source tool make internet security accessible to everyone
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open certificate authority, run for the public’s benefit and operated by The Linux Foundation. The objective of Let’s Encrypt is to make it possible to set up an HTTPS server and have it automatically obtain a browser-trusted certificate, without any human intervention. The key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who owns a domain can get a certificate validated for that domain at zero cost. Automatic: The entire enrollment process for certificates occurs painlessly during the server’s native installation or configuration process, while renewal occurs automatically in the background. Secure: Let’s Encrypt serves as a platform for implementing modern security techniques and […]
SOUQ.com story of using open source software to success!
Open source software allows startups and more small and medium businesses in industries to create agile software with a small team, so it can reduce their operating costs and have an opportunity to compete with big companies. SOUQ.com, which was founded in 2005 as an auction site linked to internet portal Maktoob before changed its model to an online shopping site in 2011, usage of open source software is an inspirational success story. SOUQ’s Chief operating officer, Wisam Daoud, revealed lately in a press conference that its own company used open source software to reduce costs and to develop its own technology rapidly. Daoud explains that all the software at […]