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		lionkor 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should your developer company go open source? I suspect it depends on the customer/target audience. If you target developers, open source vs closed source will make a difference. For others, customers probably don't even know what GitHub is.

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awesome_dude 11 days ago [–]

I think that a poster child for this is Hashicorp

They were OSS for a long time, but once the IPO took place and the investors needed a return, the licences changed..

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