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Thinking open source: How startups destroy a culture of fear

43 points by Tsiolkovsky 16y ago

randrews 16y ago
"These young startup entrepreneurs will soon graduate to executive positions at large U.S. corporations" They will? Where does this idea come from that large companies are the big leagues, and that if you're good enough you'll eventually "graduate" to there? In my experience it's the complete opposite; small companies are much more discriminating about who they hire.
- dblock 16y ago
  Larry Page?
  - randrews 16y ago
    Considering how much they've open-sourced, I don't think Google is the kind of big company he's talking about. Do you think that the people who run Github are hoping one day they'll be hired as executives at Oracle?
    - carterac 16y ago
      I don't think that's what he's saying. It's not about "making the big leagues" or getting hired by Oracle. It's about growing your startup into a big company that embraces this culture. Look at Facebook. It is officially a very big company now, and it is doing amazing things for the community like Cassandra and HipHop for PHP.
      - randrews 16y ago
        "These young startup entrepreneurs will soon graduate to executive positions at large U.S. corporations, and will bring their trusted like-minded soldiers with them to radically evolve the culture of the business. In less than ten years we will witness open source software coming out of Goldman Sachs or Bloomberg." I agree that if companies that release open source software now grow bigger then they will still release source, but from that quote it's clear to me that that's not what he's talking about. The people running Facebook are releasing a lot of cool stuff, but I don't see them lining up to move to Goldman Sachs to release stuff there instead.
gary4gar 16y ago
Good to see open source going mainstream but what comments "their ceo" is taking about? I only see single comment, unless I am looking at wrong thread[1]? [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347076 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347076
smithbits 16y ago
"Software engineers of corporate America are wired in a way that promotes fear. It hurts creativity and growth." I'm horrified to say that I just can't get past that bit of hyperbole.

43 points by Tsiolkovsky 16y ago

"These young startup entrepreneurs will soon graduate to executive positions at large U.S. corporations" They will? Where does this idea come from that large companies are the big leagues, and that if you're good enough you'll eventually "graduate" to there? In my experience it's the complete opposite; small companies are much more discriminating about who they hire.

dblock 16y ago
Larry Page?
- randrews 16y ago
  Considering how much they've open-sourced, I don't think Google is the kind of big company he's talking about. Do you think that the people who run Github are hoping one day they'll be hired as executives at Oracle?
  - carterac 16y ago
    I don't think that's what he's saying. It's not about "making the big leagues" or getting hired by Oracle. It's about growing your startup into a big company that embraces this culture. Look at Facebook. It is officially a very big company now, and it is doing amazing things for the community like Cassandra and HipHop for PHP.
    - randrews 16y ago
      "These young startup entrepreneurs will soon graduate to executive positions at large U.S. corporations, and will bring their trusted like-minded soldiers with them to radically evolve the culture of the business. In less than ten years we will witness open source software coming out of Goldman Sachs or Bloomberg." I agree that if companies that release open source software now grow bigger then they will still release source, but from that quote it's clear to me that that's not what he's talking about. The people running Facebook are releasing a lot of cool stuff, but I don't see them lining up to move to Goldman Sachs to release stuff there instead.

gary4gar 16y ago

Good to see open source going mainstream but what comments "their ceo" is taking about? I only see single comment, unless I am looking at wrong thread[1]? [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347076 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347076

smithbits 16y ago

"Software engineers of corporate America are wired in a way that promotes fear. It hurts creativity and growth." I'm horrified to say that I just can't get past that bit of hyperbole.