The Upsides of Open Source

Cockroach has built a transform piece of technology. It's very cool, and people who use it love it. And what they've proven is that if you build something that's amazing and you sell it for money, people pay you for it. What they wanted was the upside of open source. The other thing they're doing is creating a different lens on competition. If what you're building as a product is successful enough, then you're going to get big enough that there will be competition. There's no successful product that dos n't have competition,. Because it's so obvious that what you should do is compete with someone.