The Pros and Cons of Open Source

Mark LeCoskey: There's a lot of positive reasons you can open source something but for every positive there is an equal and opposite negative reason too. The downsides are obviously you're giving up your IP that is no longer your IP once you contribute to a foundation it is theirs so if I'm trying to build a commercial product I have to think a lot about what does that mean for my business. He was part of the original team where Mark LeCoskey was leading the engineering team working on Cloud Foundry back in the day. "I still remember sort of the original story and the team and the vision before pivotal" he says.