As open source companies and projects enter a transition phase of funding, licensing, community participation, let’s look at the characteristics of successful open source projects.

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WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN OPEN SOURCE?

There are 1000s of widely used open source projects, from Linux to Java to MySQL to Docker to Kubernetes to MongoDB
Less projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business models
Plenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development model

WHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?

Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack
Complex projects vs. “it just works”
Critical security - Vault
Complex data services - MongoDB, Kafka
Many companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, Kubernetes
Management / Observability Engines - Crossplane, Prometheus
Programming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.
Cloud services hiding complexity
Cloud services stretching across clouds
Single vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensing
Single vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scale

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