Linux Foundation survey finds trust leads open-source firms' competitive advantages
A survey of 225 founders and enterprise leaders by the Linux Foundation and Serena finds AI boosting internal productivity, while enterprise sales remains a challenge.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
Primary source: Linux Foundation Newsroom
Why it matters
For open-source founders, the survey points to trust, hosted operations and enterprise selling as important parts of commercialization.
Matthieu Lavergne started his career as founder and CEO of two technology companies, one an SMB-focused B2B SaaS business and the other a service marketplace. Serena says he later worked in corporate development, M&A and fundraising at Roland Berger and BNP Paribas before leading strategic partnerships at mobile-games company Voodoo. He now invests in open source and has been asking commercial open-source founders a question: when the code is free, and AI can write more of it, what exactly are customers paying for?…
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