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onivim / oni2

Native, lightweight modal code editor
https://v2.onivim.io
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Write an article on oni/oni2 monetization model? #383

Open Raikiri opened 4 years ago

Raikiri commented 4 years ago

Not really a bug at all, but this is the only place I've found to post a suggestion to. I think oni2 uses a really interesting open-source commercial licensing model and the whole open-source community might benefit greatly from its experience. Do you guys plan to share how exactly it works and how successful it ended up being financially?

CrossR commented 4 years ago

I think when we have an MVP, there are a few articles that would be interesting about Oni2.

The funding model is potentially interesting, as is the performance / comparison versus Oni1. I would guess if @bryphe does want to talk about the funding model, it would make more sense for that to wait until after this initial pay-what-you-want section is over.

bryphe commented 4 years ago

For sure, thanks for the suggestion @Raikiri . I still consider the model 'experimental' - in particular, it'll be interesting to see how it works as we raise the price (and longer-term... when we start releasing our 'time-delay' master commits under the MIT license).

But I definitely am interested in sharing the results of this 'experiment' with the OSS community as we get some more data - I do believe it is a promising model for sustainability, and potentially useful for other projects as well.

Raikiri commented 4 years ago

Thanks @bryphe. In my opinion, the main benefit of sharing your experience here is that it's going to be of great value to everyone in open-source community, not just vim-lovers. And hopefully can lead to sustained development models for products in completely different areas.

I also like the way you breakdown reports on your projects clearly and without personal bias stating what worked and what didn't.