Heather Meeker, who helped MongoDB, Redis Labs and Confluent write new software licenses, gives insight on open source software businesses.
with their business and licensing models, helping them solve a problem that's now decades-old: How do you make money with a business built on free, open source software?
After five years as a programmer, she says she became bored. At the time, she was developing accounting applications, and felt that she had hit a roadblock in her career. So instead, she pursued what she says was her first passion, and became a musician. She was a drummer and a leader of a band that played blues, college radio rock, and anything people wanted them to play."It's easy to explain why I changed from being a musician to a lawyer," Meeker said.
"I set out to learn all I could about it," Meeker said."In any organization, if you learn a little bit more than the person in the next office, you're the expert. Then they came to me with questions, so I learned more about it. Open source to me is really an interesting thing to focus on."
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