Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)
Oxide and Friends
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Open Source Software Gives You This Illusion of Zero Cost Growth
Venture capital firms are looking for fast growth and the open source software gives an in particular, downloads gives you this illusion of product market fit. But these VC firms don't want to fund things that give them the kind of frustration. And so they start wanting it both ways by trying to prevent other folks from monetizing it. When it starts getting frustrating, when they say, why are these jerks making money off of my investment? Which is called open source software.
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