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Posts by Tracy Osborn (tracymakes)

Uh omg I would LOVE to see you. What can I do to get you to come??

3 months ago 5 0 2 0
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Yes on 50 💪

5 months ago 2 0 0 0
Slide at Kinference

Slide at Kinference

At Kinference, truth bombs being dropped.

5 months ago 6 0 0 1

I love traveling solo, but sometimes I wonder if I am too good at it and am therefore bad at traveling with friends now.

6 months ago 2 0 0 0
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Kicking things off at #MicroConf Europe: Istanbul. 👏

6 months ago 7 0 2 0
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🚨 TinySeed Fall Accelerator batch applications are officially open Sept 1-9! 🚨 Head to tinyseed.com/apply to apply, and join us on YouTube this Wed for an application Q&A: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KI...

7 months ago 6 3 0 2
Screenshot of the blog post intro:

Permissive vs Copyleft Open Source
Published on Jul 9, 2025.
The premise of copyleft licenses is attractive: Create more open source!

With permissive licenses, someone can take the code and make proprietary modifications to it and sell it to other people without releasing the modifications. We want people to publish their improvements, right?

With copyleft, we can force people to publish their improvements to copyleft code. Businesses will want to use our code because creating it was so much work in the first place. We need copyleft if we want more contributors, more open source, more code re-use, more freedom.

Right?

Wrong.

In this post, I break down all the ways copyleft licenses fail to achieve their stated goals, and explain why permissive licenses succeed where copyleft fails.

Screenshot of the blog post intro: Permissive vs Copyleft Open Source Published on Jul 9, 2025. The premise of copyleft licenses is attractive: Create more open source! With permissive licenses, someone can take the code and make proprietary modifications to it and sell it to other people without releasing the modifications. We want people to publish their improvements, right? With copyleft, we can force people to publish their improvements to copyleft code. Businesses will want to use our code because creating it was so much work in the first place. We need copyleft if we want more contributors, more open source, more code re-use, more freedom. Right? Wrong. In this post, I break down all the ways copyleft licenses fail to achieve their stated goals, and explain why permissive licenses succeed where copyleft fails.

I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses.

If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!

shazow.net/posts/permis...

8 months ago 69 17 3 3
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MicroConf Welcome to MicroConf - Where Independent SaaS Founders Launch, Meet, Learn, and Grow! MicroConf is the world’s most trusted community for bootstrapped SaaS founders. MicroConf is a community of SaaS...

Anyone out there with a YT channel with over 100K subscribers in a tech niche?

I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by.

Consultant recommendations welcome too!

8 months ago 10 2 0 0
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Planning an event for @tinyseed.com founders/community and I'm glad that, because it's not a public event, I can use ridiculous illustrations like this to make people laugh.

Enjoy the beach in your suits, folks!

10 months ago 8 1 1 0

Heck yeah! 👏👏👏

10 months ago 2 0 0 0

@snook.ca Totally agree re: your "comments were a mistake" post, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. They really contributes to the community divide we have now, and has made divisive opinions seem more "the norm" and thus attracting followers rather than staying isolated.

11 months ago 3 0 1 0

I've gotten an opportunity to use Webflow for work and goodness, is this a cool product. 🙌

1 year ago 2 0 0 0

I feel vindicated! Ain’t got the time to learn a new framework when jquery still does everything I need for my lil projects.

1 year ago 2 0 0 0
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Weeee

1 year ago 4 0 0 0
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Yeah, 100% agree

1 year ago 2 0 0 0

Same! :(

1 year ago 1 0 1 0
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True creativity comes from knowing when to break the rules, something that #AI isn’t good at. @tracyosborn.com #microconf @microconf.com

1 year ago 7 2 0 0
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Einar Vollset has a new look @MicroConf. Next up: Will #AI kill #SaaS? #microconf @tracyosborn.com

1 year ago 2 1 0 0
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We’re kicking off #MicroConf New Orleans with Dr. Sherry Walling as she dives into the psychological journey of entrepreneurship.

She’ll share actionable strategies to build resilience, manage stress, and protect your well-being as a founder. 🧘‍♀️

1 year ago 2 1 1 0

See you soon!

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

You’ll be missed!!

1 year ago 1 0 1 0
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Heading to New Orleans for our flagship @microconf.com conference. 🎉

1 year ago 9 1 1 0

👏👏👏

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Yess, yesss, the more I can get you here, the more likely that I will win

1 year ago 2 0 0 0

😆 Blast from the past there...

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

I hope things are well for you! I have a $1,000 bet with Einar that Bluesky will be around still in a year so I'm rather motivated to keep it going. 😆

1 year ago 8 0 1 0

Haha hey, it's been forever! I'm now the Head of Product at @tinyseed.com @microconf.com so things are super busy! (Which reminds me that I should set up a collab again with @indiehackers.com sometime...)

1 year ago 4 0 1 0

👀 Going to lurk on this thread because I am curious too!

1 year ago 4 0 1 0
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*slowly collapses into a pile of dust and bones*

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