Open Source Summit Europe 2024

For the first time in history almost everyone uses open source, albeit often without getting the benefits of free software. Open source has accomplished unparalleled success in the IT industry, but with success comes challenges and risks. Over recent decades we have seen business models change while the industry and the users found the best ways to use open source. With software as a service we now see a fairly new but very successful approach, that goes hand in hand with open source, but is not without issues. This presentation will walk the audience through different approaches of monetizing and developing open source and examine the consequences of SaaS models for the open source ecosystem, both for business models and software development It will also point out how recent developments show the resilience of the Open Source world.