Open Source And Commercialization
This is business strategy guidance. It is not a licensing decision, pricing
Status
This is business strategy guidance. It is not a licensing decision, pricing commitment, investor advice, legal advice, tax advice, or payment launch plan.
The current repository is proprietary unless and until licensing is intentionally changed. Future open-source or open-core work should be treated as a roadmap choice, not as an implied permission attached to today's source.
Open-core Direction
Prox OS can use an open-core model. It does not need to rely on hiding all code as the main moat.
Future open-source candidates:
studio-contract.app-contract.- Future
dataset-contract. - Future
connector-contract. os-ui.design-tokens.create-os-app.- Starter templates.
- Demo apps.
- AI-readable docs.
- Local development shell.
Commercial candidates:
- Hosted Prox OS Cloud.
- Team Studios.
- Marketplace billing.
- Hub subscriptions.
- Revenue split.
- Managed storage.
- Advanced AI agents.
- Enterprise governance.
- Private app registry.
- Expert review workflows.
Not urgent to open-source:
- Production cloud.
- Billing.
- User data sync.
- Advanced Alma orchestration.
- App Store backend.
- Connector credential infrastructure.
- Operations, analytics, and admin backend.
- Compliance-specific deployment details.
Prox OS may become open-core or source-available in the future, but the current repository is proprietary until licensing is intentionally changed.
Why Code Secrecy Is Not Enough
Competitors can copy code faster than they can copy a trusted operating environment. The harder-to-copy assets are:
- Hosted cloud reliability.
- Community and creator graph.
- Marketplace trust.
- Execution speed.
- Support and expert review.
- Deployment and operational discipline.
- Data network and templates.
- Product narrative.
The moat should come from trusted platform operation, ecosystem loops, and fast learning, not only from private source code.
Commercial Boundaries
- Do not launch live billing before legal, tax, payment, support, and refund posture are reviewed.
- Do not launch revenue split before owner namespace, contributor identity, and marketplace accounting are designed.
- Keep public ecosystem loops cheap enough to grow usage.
- Charge for private/team work, managed infrastructure, governance, audit, advanced agents, and commercial support.