Jeff GeerlingJun 29, 2023
Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/self-publishing-technical-book-10-years #writing #selfpublishing
Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions | Jeff Geerling

Show threadJeff GeerlingJun 29, 2023

And yes, my work is now published as CC BY-SA.

Meaning Red Hat could rebuild it and sell it to their customers if they wanted.

And you know what? I'm okay with that.

But I'd rather you just get a free copy from me directly: https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/CTVMPCbEeXd3

Ansible for DevOps

Learn how to use Ansible for infrastructure orchestration, provisioning, and application deployment.

Leanpub
Show threadJeff Geerling
I've also donated $1,000 to Debian today, to thank them for providing me with a free, consistent OS to use to test my code and run it in production #OSSThanks
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Show threadJeff GeerlingJun 29, 2023

Linux and the Free Software movement are built on the foundation of individuals contributing their work for the enjoyment of everyone, without restriction.

Celebrate the hackers and hobbyists who have enabled even massive corporations to generate billions in wealth.

Show threadchristian mockJun 29, 2023

@geerlingguy I think that's oversimplifying things a bit. Those individuals need to eat, and the days of pure hobbyist coders are long gone. RH and intel and IBM and others pay quite a few people to contribute code to the OSS world.

And in the end they're companies that need to make money. How they go about that is another story...

Show threadJeff GeerlingJun 29, 2023

@cm Companies don't need to make money.

Companies need to convince customers to give them money, and if they do a good job of that, they profit.

Building a business on top of open source code, then playing games with licensing due to reported shenanigans from supposedly just one downstream competitor 1/10000th your size... that's not something a company needs to do.

No matter how much good they've done, it is for naught if they decide to discard it in the name of profit.

Show threadChris BensenJun 30, 2023
@geerlingguy @cm If a company creates a product that uses open source and makes money and they don't adhere to the license then thry are breaking the law. They should adhere to the license or write all their own software. They benefit from open source and the idea os to give back. If they aren't going to givr back they can do all the hard work.
Show threadAzimechJun 30, 2023
@cm @geerlingguy Only open source extremists are against prophiting off of open source, what people are against is IBM & Red Hat's callous disregard for the community that helped build them, many of whome aren't even making derivative OS's