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Early Kubernetes Work Led To Founding Chismatic
- Joseph Jacks recounts joining early Mesosphere work and starting a Kubernetes-focused startup, Chismatic, which led to launching the first Kube conference.
- He credits being in the right project at the right time for deep learning about open source business dynamics.
Commercial Open Source Is Its Own Company Type
- Commercial open source is a distinct company archetype where open source is the core product and the company builds differentiated experiences around it.
- Joseph Jacks explains he coined COSS to capture companies like Red Hat, Confluent, Databricks that decouple community code from proprietary value capture.
Internet And Developer Growth Fueled Open Source Scale
- The rise of the internet and the explosive growth in the number of developers drove open source adoption and made commercial OSS possible at scale.
- Jacks ties Linux, Apache and hundreds of thousands of libraries to internet growth and estimates developer population rose from millions to tens of millions.