Business Success with Open Source

Making FOSS a Part of Your Business Model

How can you incorporate FOSS as a component of a business model for your organization? This is the last chapter and one of the last times you’ll have to read my usual answer: it depends. As you learned in ​Common Elements of a Business Model​, there are a lot of variables to consider when generating a business model, so each business model ends up being unique. Let’s go through the list of model elements from that section and look at some examples of where FOSS might make sense.

Value Proposition and Its Differentiating Qualities

What is the value your business aims to provide to its customers, and how is it different—and ideally better—than what those customers can get elsewhere? This value must be ...