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You are presenting true entrepreneurship and open protocols as a false dichotomy This has been changing for some time now: MongoDB switched to an open source m

You are presenting true entrepreneurship and open protocols as a false dichotomy This has been changing for some time now: MongoDB switched to an open source model a decade ago, and a number of companies have followed suit. The strategy is hard to pull off, but even in the case where Docker the company very much failed, Docker the technology did not. The next wave of these are blockchain companies. I think the jury is still out on these open source companies becoming breakout successes, but they did succeed so far in one critical aspect: the funding model. These companies have tens of millions of dollars at their disposal to build open protocols, and a plan for how to make more once they ship usable products. Yes, building centralized tech is easier. No, that doesn’t mean it will inevitably win. These things take time.

Pet_Ant 6y ago
> MongoDB switched to an open source model a decade ago ...and then moved back 2 years ago. From the https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/README https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/README : > MongoDB is free and the source is available. Versions released prior to October 16, 2018 are published under the AGPL. All versions released after October 16, 2018, including patch fixes for prior versions, are published under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) v1. AGPL is open source: https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0 https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0 SSPLv1 is not listed, and SSPLv2 does not seem to have been approved either at last mention https://opensource.org/LicenseReview122018 https://opensource.org/LicenseReview122018