Companies and startups, in particular, are usually looking for savings and therefore software offered free of charge is the natural choice for them. Open-source software is free of a license fee, yet it doesn't mean that using it is completely costless. How expensive it is? As always - it depends and precise calculations required in-depth knowledge of the company and the development team. Still, let's take a closer look at the cost drivers leaving out the precise calculations.

For most of my professional career, I was working as a member of a bigger group or had someone who was taking key decisions (or at least took the responsibility). When I decided to join co.brick (early 2022) my task was simple: make a product out of the software the company started to build a few months earlier as an internal startup. Sounds simple? Nothing could be more wrong! But how could I have known?