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Open Source in a Large Organization with Michael Cheng

The Business of Open Source

CHAPTER

How to Start an Open Source Company

A common way for people to start open source companies is with a project they created in their day job at a big company. The only question that you need to figure out is who has control of the GitHub account? Oftentimes those two things are tied to the personal emails of the main maintainer anyway, right? That's often comes up outside of stewardship of the community.

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