Rhapsody

To be honest we know very little about this product. To me that is a signal of it being more of a closed culture.

I did know the company that invented it. They sued me for copyright infringement in 1997 with an earlier product which I was not guilty of because of because I wrote a completely different product and never had access to their source code.

Open

They made my life very difficult when I started out in business by extending the lawsuit and using it speak negatively about me. Having said that I was a little immature in my perspective and I was rude about them. So people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

If you are evaluating this product and company I would suggest looking at sites like G2 and glassdoor to see how they are doing. The company used to be called Lyniate. They also bought Corepoint.

We used to get pretty awful reviews on glassdoor ourselves until I had a mental crisis in 2019 about how I communicated with people in my own company. I feel like I learned and I feel like now we do better Decentralized Company Communication. But that is all very very subjective.

Have a look at Rhapsody yourself and see if you like the culture of the company behind it.

Having said all that I enjoyed the culture of Orion in 1995 - I have some fond memories of my time there and I felt a little bad about making a competitive product but I think they did fine. Rhapsody got sold to a private equity firm and so I am sure the investors and the CEO got a good payout.