"The way to take over an industry is not to fix the current model, but to completely destroy it and replace it with a model you know is better"
Open source is the better model for every single industry. It's coming.
Open source is the better model for every single industry. It's coming.
Furthermore, companies which would lose more profit than hard-to-monetize goodwill gained, by releasing something their competitors can use against them, has as much chance as an airplane made of lead.
Open source can help sell small products get initial traction but it makes them easy to knock-off and easy to steal (unless you make the build process hard and fragile)... It just won't scale because human nature.
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