Here's the one-hundred ninety-seventh issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every weekend by the team at OSS Capital, creators and stewards of COSS Community and Open Core Summit.
We deliver only the most fresh 😋 news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week saw JJ at WordCamp and WordPress in the news, a milestone from Nous Research and Bittensor, updates from NocoDB, Dub, & Plane, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
Fred Krueger: "Session: Bitcoin, AI and Tao Moderated by @JosephJacks_ and @markjeffrey Save the date. Let us know if you are interested." Link
Vihar Kurama: "On time. - 30k GitHub stars (currently at 29.1k) - 4k Discord members (currently at 3.9k) - 2k followers here on @planepowers (just 1 more to go!) Swag drop coming soon. Keep the love coming!" Link
JJ: "I'm excited to be keynoting @wordcamp US in Portland Oregon later this week on Thursday morning... Come hear me speak about the @OSSCapital thesis and why open source is eating software faster than software is eating the world. us.wordcamp.org/2024/schedule/" Link
Tunya Irkad: "@tunyabytes 1.1 | Open Source or Not: How to Pitch Your Open-Source Community One burning question many dev tool founders ask: Should you open-source your software if commercialization is the goal? youtube.com/watch?v=NTQPeY..." Link
Richie - oss/acc: "Over 50+ people currently testing and giving individual feedback for the next version of @Cap. Goal: Build the world's greatest screen recorder Status: In progress DM me for the download link!" Link
bluesky: "we now have over 10M people on bluesky! (as of yesterday! bluesky saw it first) bsky.app/download" Link
JJ: "NVIDIA monopoly will not last forever." Link
Steven Tey: "Incredibly excited to be launching free .link domains on @dubdotco today -- available now on all paid plans. Best part? You can claim the domain you want in just 1-click Shoutout to @novadotlink & @dynadot for making this happen!" Link
Cal.com: "it's always "let's use cal" and never "how's cal"" Link
Plane: "𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 We love Issues, but sometimes they're just not enough. That's why---enter Issue Types! Create any type you want, set properties and attributes, make fields mandatory, and get full control over your work." Link
Kelsey Hightower: "If you were a developer, you could have gotten really far in your career with no empathy, no customer service, lack of communication, living in the basement. You hate people, but you love computers. You could have got paid well too. That's over. thenewstack.io/kelsey-hightow..." Link
nocodb: "At NocoDB, we are grateful & super pumped to have gone past 10,000+ daily active orgs using NocoDB in open source alone. We believe NocoDB is a foundational piece of business software that the world can lean on (more so in GenAI times)! A huge thank you to the community, the missionary team & investors. In this journey, NocoDB's first principle (from our pitch deck) has been simple: Every internet business has the fundamental right to access an open-source no-code database, and NocoDB is here to provide it." Link
Colony: "Welcome to the Colony Alpha Q1 2025" Link
Andrew: "I applaud @photomatt for what he says - funnily enough, I said similar stuff about tilling the land (spread the fruits of your labors) and a bit more at #WPLDN and @FriendlyWebGuy and I set this up to say it even louder fundwp.com Funding Dot Org is my aim here with no favour for individuals or corporate entities and to favour only the community. The more you make - in my view - the more you should give. ma.tt/2024/09/ecosys..." Link
zeldman: ""What we create together is bigger than any one person." ma.tt/2024/09/ecosys... #OpenSource @photomatt" Link
Richie - oss/acc: "Been working on @Cap's pricing for the new upcoming release. The new version is a major overhaul. Powerful video editor. Local first. Shareable links. Custom S3 storage support. Currently at $59/yr per user (or $9/mo) - What do you think?" Link
Kevin Xu: "NEWS: ByteDance denies working with TSMC on its custom AI chips" Link
Juan Linietsky: "Developers in the West are likely unaware but, in Japan, game patents are a thing (Pocketpair is Japanese). A long time ago, when a previous studio I owned worked with Square Enix, they had register/check for patent clearance for our game. It's why no DDR clones look like it." Link
Juan Linietsky: "While others say "Trust me, I've changed, I'm a different person now", this little guy has always been (and will always be) fully faithful and committed to you. Not because of what I or anyone else may say, but simply because its FOSS." Link
JJ: "Ideally this cost drops to a single token or even dramatically less (a single RAO?) once dTAO normalizes. Creating a new subnet should be as frictionless as starting / forking a new open source project." Link
Vamsi Kurama: "Plane Pro, our most popular plan, is now available to be self-hosted. But cooler than that is it's at 100% parity with the plan on our Cloud. Recapping how it works and what it unlocks" Link
JJ: "I'm about to go on stage in a few minutes .. here's the livestream for @WordCampUS !! Excited to talk about @OSSCapital and why open source is transforming everything. youtube.com/live/Z5Q_HeZbh..." Link
Antonio Sejas: "Inspiring talk by @JosephJacks_ at #WCUS on how open-source projects are transforming the world and the role OSS Capital plays in supporting them." Link
JJ: "Fastest decentralized training in the world happening NOW on Bittensor. Look at that gorgeous loss "We could very much handle training a 100B+ parameter model with this method" --- @const_reborn" Link
Matt Mullenweg: "I know private equity and investors can be brutal (read the book Barbarians at the Gate). Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. #wcus #wordpress" Link
JJ: "Sadly, Zuck operates on a definition of open that best serves his interests in non-differentiated areas .. which can work well, but is not a true positive sum open source like we see with WordPress, Linux, Godot and many other successful open standard ecosystems..." Link
JJ: "I strongly endorse this message by @WordPress and @automattic founder @photomatt... but let's be clear: there are a bunch of major VCs and PE firms that have ZERO interest in giving back to open source or nourishing those ecosystems --- they want to strip mine. Full stop." Link
W4 Games: "Brick by brick, we're building something big! This Monday, we're unveiling a new solution that will streamline your development process and take your project to the next level. Stay tuned! Can you guess what it is? #W4Games #madewithGodot #Godot" Link
Juan Linietsky: "I like that some people think that, in the future, you will describe a game to an AI and it will create it. They clearly never worked in the industry. If humans could easily describe games with words, devs would not need the insane amounts of iteration and polishing they do." Link
Juan Linietsky: "The next two months there will be a lot of very cool stuff happening in the #GodotEngine world. I just can't contain the excitement." Link
Taco Verdo: ""If anyone of you gets in trouble for speaking up in favor of WordPress and/or open source, reach out to me. I'll do my best to help you find a new job." - @photomatt #WCUS" Link
WordPress: "'Open Source, once ridiculed and attacked by the professional classes, has taken over as an intellectual and moral movement. Its followers are legion within every major tech company.' - WordPress Cofounder Matt Mullenweg" Link
Kelsey Hightower: "At this point I'm willing to pay more money for appliances with zero smart features and physical controls for everything." Link
const: "There is an important part missing from this trimmed video where I call out the true innovators: @NousResearch and team who actually wrote the core innovation which makes it possible on Bittensor." Link
Godot Engine: "In a collaborative effort with @MetaQuestVR we are happy to announce: the Godot Editor is now available in #EarlyAccess on the Meta Horizon store! This means you can develop games right on your headset without the need for an external computer godotengine.org/article/godot-..." Link
Matt Mullenweg: "WP Engine is not WordPress: wordpress.org/news/2024/09/w..." Link
Tom Dörr: "PearAI is another open source Cursor alternative" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,728 jobs and 324 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 1.15% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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