From Open Source to Paid Product: Is AI Accelerating the Shift?

From Open Source to Paid Product: Is AI Accelerating the Shift?

I think many of us have already noticed that a growing number of open-source projects and libraries are moving towards commercial or dual-licensing models. In the .NET ecosystem, several widely used libraries have taken this path over the past year or so. AutoMapper and MediatR introduced commercial editions under a dual-licensing model, Fluent Assertions began requiring a paid licence for commercial use with version 8, and MassTransit 9 became …

Why open source matters in an AI world

I’m an old Borland guy. I started using Borland tools in the early 1990s, from Turbo Pascal through Delphi. I dabbled in Paradox. I even tried to stick with Borland Office. I wandered through the Inprise years, and the Kylix endeavor, and I was actually a Borland employee during the CodeGear/Embarcadero migrations.  You could write a book about the rise and fall of Borland. Suffice it to say that things got dodgy when Borland strayed from its fo…

Open Source AI Is Non-Negotiable

↓ Jump to the video and timestampsI've been to Washington more times in the last six months than I was in the first 34 years of my life. That's not something I'm bragging about. I'd rather be home in Austin, gardening, stacking, doing the show from my studio. But the fight is in DC right now, and Conner Brown has been making that case to me every time we sit down together.This was our third time recording in person, and as Conner puts it, DC is …