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Just realised how silly it is for the CEO to think that we gain more over the competition by working in isolation with a small team, than we do by collaborating
by happyslobro 10y ago
Just realised how silly it is for the CEO to think that we gain more over the competition by working in isolation with a small team, than we do by collaborating with people who are highly unlikely to actually be interested in our niche. I'm going to have to thoroughly explain how this open source thing works, over a beer or three.
- uptownfunk 10y agoThe thing with open source is that when it breaks, you have no one to yell at. We've been using R/Python for sometime now and have not had any problems there at all, but it is probably their biggest concern. And I'm sure this very subject has come up so often you should be able to find some very convincing arguments around it.
- happyslobro 10y agoOh, the business peeps are totally fine with using OS. It's the idea of sharing our own work that scares them; they worry that our competitors will leapfrog us. I think that if our stuff is really that good, then we don't really need to worry about competition from the tech angle. Especially since we are dominating an obscure niche at the moment.
- ddorian43 10y agoI'm pretty sure there ARE people you can pay and yell to. Have you searched ?