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Open Source in a Large Organization with Michael Cheng

The Business of Open Source

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How to Position Your Open Source Company as a Business Unit

Emily O'Mear: Treating the open source component of a business as another business unit is best advice. She says if you want to make your company more acquireable, hire some professional developer advocates. "Your open source project is its own product line or its own product and you have to treat it like that," she says.

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