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It must be possible to milk this "dumb" investor money - which directly destroys the bought goods in the long run. Basically you create two teams. Team A develo
by PicassoCTs 2y ago
It must be possible to milk this "dumb" investor money - which directly destroys the bought goods in the long run. Basically you create two teams. Team A develops a business version of a open source-good. Team B works on that open Source good.
Team A gets acquired. The product destroyed. Team B now founds a company becoming Team A, while Team A forks the open source product and keeps the game going. Its a ton of migrations, but you could get wallstreet to donate to open source as a business strategy.
- figglestar 2y agoI'm not sure this is appealing to wallstreet at all but this just describes the appeal of open source as a customer to me. VMware is a just perfect case example, they're literally firing paying customers and destroying a product lots of people are using to make a quick buck. The company and the product will ultimately be destroyed regardless of their underlying value but not before they make bank. But if Vmware was open source they never would have bought it. The leverage being closed provides is the whole point.
- slt2021 2y agoThis is how Silicon Valley works in a nutshell. There is legacy technology corporation A - with a bunch of enterprise customers, eventually they: - reach a plateau of sales /growth - feature development slows down - cost getting cut across the board The core product team eventually just leaves the company to use all their internal knowledge to create a startup B that competes with A and delivers next-gen technology in the same space. They get traction, and funding and outgrow company A eventually.