chef interview
Summary
Notes
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chef one of few companies in enterprise that is fully open source
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many companies now go with BSL license or open core model where lots of features aren’t open source
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chef did not have a happy ending, acquired by private equity for much lower than what it should have received based on what it was making
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statement from chef and also other folks in the space: go open source if community can be your biggest asset
- caveat: maybe not open source everything though - no business competition