Hi folks, I'm Pejman, founder of Touca, a developer-friendly regression testing system that provides feedback to software engineers when they write code that could break their software. I started Touca as a side-project and an internal tool at my previous employer until last years when I left my job to grow it as a business. In the past year, we were focused on offering Touca to enterprise companies, thinking that they would find it the most useful. While our thinking was right, our growth was very slow, so last month, we decided to fundamentally change our go-to-market strategy and rethink every aspect of Touca as a business. As part of that change, we open-sourced Touca last month under the permissive Apache-2.0 license, and changed our business model to charging for our cloud services.
See: https://touca.io/blog/open-source-announcement/
But in our industry, the word open-source has occasionally been misused as a marketing ploy. Restrictive licenses, incomplete offerings, forced upgrades... I think there's more to becoming an open-source company than letting people see your source code. I tried last night to outline my thinking on this subject and the efforts we are going to make at Touca to earn this title. I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope that you find this post worthwhile.