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1. Join a company (usually big) that has a culture of open sourcing softwares. 2. Start an open source project you are keen on, and make use of the resource t
by wanghq 4y ago
1. Join a company (usually big) that has a culture of open sourcing softwares.
2. Start an open source project you are keen on, and make use of the resource to grow the project/community/contributors.
3. Quit with other core maintainers and start your own company that commercializes the open source project.
- pabs3 4y agoSome resources for the first step: https://www.fossjobs.net/ https://www.fossjobs.net/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
- pritambarhate 4y agoEssentially what Confluent (Kafka) founders did.
- throwaways85989 4y agoRemember also, that large companies have experimental expansion phases which they usually abandon once economic crisis dawns. If the thing you build is such a "experimental fort" - your parent company might be open to a "buy out", were you promise them favorable conditions by your future company with whom they share the IP.