Hey. I grew up in SF, moved to Montreal in 2002. So, you know, we probably crossed around Iowa City or so. There's a lot to unpack in your comment. Is there en

Hey. I grew up in SF, moved to Montreal in 2002. So, you know, we probably crossed around Iowa City or so. There's a lot to unpack in your comment. Is there enough similarity between Open Source companies that they will benefit from being near other OSS companies? I think so, for a few reasons. 1. Local investors will have experience with Open Source (we've seen this here in Montreal; our big seed investor MSU has invested in 3 OSS companies). 2. Local service providers (accountants, lawyers, consultants) are aware of and can work with Open Source business models, licenses, etc. 3. A pool of business talent -- people who know how to commercialize Open Source. 4. A pool of Open-Source-sensitive technical talent. It's hard to make Open Source work from a technical level. Some people have the chops for it -- others don't. The ones who do a good job make it look easy; and then there's the hundreds of thousands of 1-person projects on sourceforge.net. I think that making a successful Open Source company is as different from making a shrink-wrap software company as making a Web company is. It's a sufficiently different model that you have to have a much different team to pursue it.