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What's up with the recent trend of YC being open source? Is it an ideology thing, a sign of confidence, or is it really that consumers prefer open source softwa
by OsrsNeedsf2P 1y ago
What's up with the recent trend of YC being open source? Is it an ideology thing, a sign of confidence, or is it really that consumers prefer open source software?
- vachina 1y agoEnsures your beta software gets free updates until it gets commercialized by private equity 3 years later.
- hoakiet98 1y agoI think this is a cynical take on OSS. As a for-profit company, we have already commercialized the desktop version and plan on commercializing the web version as well. I don't think this is unhealthy for open-source, and I hope we're transparent about that. The code is still free and self-hostable under Apache 2.0.
- hoakiet98 1y ago> What's up with the recent trend of YC being open source? To be fair, we were open source before we got into YC. YC didn't mandate any business model, and the vast majority of our batchmates (empirically, 90%) were closed-source. > Is it an ideology thing, a sign of confidence, or is it really that consumers prefer open source software? I personally think it's a competitive advantage for distribution, differentiation, and attracting talent. Also as an engineer, I just like OSS.