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cllns

An interesting consulting niche would be to help companies open source software they want to release.

Basically:

- clean up code,

- make sure the infrastructure is sufficient,

- help with marketing and adoption,

- write documentation

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Very few companies want to pay for that, fewer still when in-house and third party devs are often begging to do that work if they'd just let them license the code as OSS.

I see it more likely as getting someone like the Stack Exchange guys agree to open source it, if we pay them enough.

A Kickstarter project, for instance.

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