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If folks at HN ventured to take a guess, what would be your bets for the next successful OSS startups/companies? Be it a great exit or an IPO.
by BossingAround 6y ago
If folks at HN ventured to take a guess, what would be your bets for the next successful OSS startups/companies? Be it a great exit or an IPO.
- mooreds 6y agoI was at a conference a few years ago and the conversation around the lunch table was the chilling effects of the public cloud's operational expertise on venture funded open source businesses (what we saw with Elastic). Nothing I've seen since that conference has changed my mind. As a developer, I love using open source software. Easy to review/bug fix, less risky because even if the company fails, it'll be around, and usually very low cost and easy to get started with. As a prospective business owner, I think it stinks. Another view: as a consumer of software, I love free stuff. As a producer of software, I like to get paid.