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As well as Red Hat has done, they are dwarfed by many other companies. This post about open source compressing the market size by 10x made a lot of sense, and
by dantiberian 12y ago
As well as Red Hat has done, they are dwarfed by many other companies. This post about open source compressing the market size by 10x made a lot of sense, and was also a little depressing. http://kellblog.com/2014/11/18/it-aint-easy-making-money-in-open-source-thoughts-on-the-hortonworks-s-1/ http://kellblog.com/2014/11/18/it-aint-easy-making-money-in-...
- ojilles 12y agoBut isn't that exactly how innovation and disruption works? Taking a market and saying "we'll do it for 10x less".
- wmf 12y agoIt depends what kind of innovation. Disruption often involves business or marketing innovation combined with technical non-innovation. Shrinking a market by 10x can be a good way to ensure that there won't be enough profit left to invest in R&D.