This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr3wmartin/">Andrew Martin</a>, CEO and founder of <a href="https://control-plane.io">Control Plane. </a>Control Plane is ultimately a consulting company, as Andrew introduced it. But the company also created and maintains <a href="https://kubesec.io">KubeSec</a>, and also has an enterprise version of <a href="https://control-plane.io/enterprise-for-flux-cd/">Flux CD</a> that it licenses. That gives this conversation a slightly different flavor from the usual. Here’s some of the things we talked about: <ul><li>The business ROI that Andrew expected to get from releasing KubeSec, and whether or not he as actually seen those expected results play out</li><li>The difference between bootstrapping a company by offering services and by offering consulting — specifically what the difference between services and consulting is. </li><li>The problem with “drive-by” feature development in open source projects — when people contribute features but don’t commit to the ongoing maintenance of the project</li><li>Why Control Plane decided to release an enterprise version of FluxCD, and how the enterprise version of Flux is differentiated from the pure open source project. </li><li>Why underinvesting in marketing, especially in marketing for the open source projects, was a mistake</li></ul>Join us at <a href="http://05f5.com">Open Source Founders Summit</a> if you want more conversations about how companies are built around open source projects, from consultancies to large corporations.

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