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# [Commercial Open Source and Ethical (and practical) Community Engagement](https://blog.openziti.io/commercial-open-source-and-ethical-and-practical-community-engagement?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

I’m a big fan of commercially supported open source. I’m biased, of course, in that it’s how I get my paycheck. However, having worked on OSS without getting paid to do so, I think there are better outcomes for everyone when a project has financial b...

Apr 27, 2023 · 4 min read · blog.openziti.io  
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## Written by

[Paul Lorenz](https://hashnode.com/@plorenz)

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Software engineer working on open source zero trust networking

I'm a developer on the open source OpenZiti project. I work mostly in Go these days, but did Java for many years. Currently working on zero-trust stack build on top of mesh networking which allows for app embedding.

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[Austin](https://hashnode.com/@austn)

[Apr 28, 2023](https://hashnode.com/posts/commercial-open-source-and-ethical-and-practical-community-engagement/644b05ec41db50f02496bb99/comment/644b1b9ba61412897254159a)

Love the article. OSS is great and getting more people involved is always good, they won't bite!

I've found that people there tend to be a lot more beginner friendly and patient than forums like Stackoverflow