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This is great guys, good to see more people bringing PaaS-like workflow without the baggage. We've been working in this space with Juju ( http://juju.ubuntu.com ) but we're using standard LXC for containers. Using LXC allows us to support applications that run on multiple processes, and since Juju is also written in Go, It seems like it might be possible for us to work together in some interesting ways. We already ha…
This is great guys, good to see more people bringing PaaS-like workflow without the baggage. We've been working in this space with Juju ( http://juju.ubuntu.com ) but we're using standard LXC for containers. Using LXC allows us to support applications that run on multiple processes, and since Juju is also written in Go, It seems like it might be possible for us to work together in some interesting ways. We already ha…
Juju is a great project and you guys are way ahead of the game but the AGPL licensing is problematic for proprietary services built on that platform.
I could be completely wrong, mind you.
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Flynn is particularly appealing to companies that need to completely control their own infrastructure. In the same sense that git being open source helps, not hurts github, I think there's limited crossover between the users of Flynn and DotCloud customers.
Who in their right mind would pay $0.288 per hour (a little over $200 per month) to dotCloud for roughly the equivalent of an EC2 small instance, when with just a little extra time spent up front, they'll be able to fire up an AMI of Flynn and pay less than a quarter as much per month?
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@titanous Jonathan Rudenberg Are you the only developer on this project currently? Sorry, just found your FAQ is at the bottom of the page and the question I had was on the bottom right corner ;) Just in case someone is too lazy to look it up himself: He's not alone and teamed up with Jeff Lindsay.
Nope, Jeff Lindsay ( http://progrium.com ) is the other half of the team.
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If open source projects had always required $50,000+ to get started, we might not have GNU/Linux today. Why can't you start the project first and then ask for donations later? Are you saying that unless you guys get paid you're not going to work on the project?
You will not nearly get as much money if you ask for donations later. Certainly not enough to pay for your cost of living. People have the tendency of thinking "hey I can get this for free, and I can get this TODAY. hm those developers are cool. maybe I'll donate some day" Then they download and use the thing. 97% forget about donating and never return. Of the remaining people, they donate maybe $100 or something.
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Flynn is particularly appealing to companies that need to completely control their own infrastructure. In the same sense that git being open source helps, not hurts github, I think there's limited crossover between the users of Flynn and DotCloud customers.
Who in their right mind would pay $0.288 per hour (a little over $200 per month) to dotCloud for roughly the equivalent of an EC2 small instance, when with just a little extra time spent up front, they'll be able to fire up an AMI of Flynn and pay less than a quarter as much per month?
You see where I'm trying to go with that?
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You will not nearly get as much money if you ask for donations later. Certainly not enough to pay for your cost of living. People have the tendency of thinking "hey I can get this for free, and I can get this TODAY. hm those developers are cool. maybe I'll donate some day" Then they download and use the thing. 97% forget about donating and never return. Of the remaining people, they donate maybe $100 or something.
proof?
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You will not nearly get as much money if you ask for donations later. Certainly not enough to pay for your cost of living. People have the tendency of thinking "hey I can get this for free, and I can get this TODAY. hm those developers are cool. maybe I'll donate some day" Then they download and use the thing. 97% forget about donating and never return. Of the remaining people, they donate maybe $100 or something.
proof?
Up until recently Passenger was completely free, with donation options. Now they have an Enterprise offering - which we are happily paying for. I suspect the Enterprise licenses are orders of magnitude more than the donations ever were.