Hi, author here. I wrote this over a year ago. I think I still agree with most of the points in the article, but if I were to write this today I'd emphasize th

Hi, author here. I wrote this over a year ago. I think I still agree with most of the points in the article, but if I were to write this today I'd emphasize the role of Cloud and SaaS even more. I think it's pretty clear that Cloud has become the dominant way to consume open-source for new projects. It's also true that SaaS is already replacing traditional proprietary "on premise" software. But I think there's a wrinkle here: open-source software can still build larger communities (and as a result, reduce reliance on a single vendor) than a SaaS company ever can. For example, look at Elasticsearch. Even if you don't want to run Elasticsearch yourself, you can choose to run it on Elastic Cloud or on AWS. So now you have at least two different companies who are invested in making Elasticsearch better for you. Compare this to Sumologic or Splunk, where you are clearly beholden to that vendor. In other words, SaaS is the new proprietary software. And I still believe that open-source is poised to "eat" it.