> If your goal is profit, don't open source your core product. It's not hard to create a profitable business on open source and make good money. The question i

> If your goal is profit, don't open source your core product. It's not hard to create a profitable business on open source and make good money. The question is how much. If your goal as a founder is to be a billionaire, open source products are not going to do it. You need monopoly-level rents to do that, like Oracle or Snowflake. There's plenty of opportunity to create millionaires. But you'll have to forego VC financing to do it because that math does not work for venture capital funds.