open-source software

“Open source software is going to be key.”

“AWS is essentially a reseller of open source software.”

“So what's interesting with this brave new crypto world is that now we can have modular components that are built in an open source way that are granularly incentivized. So people can work on building those modular components, and if there is some crypto enable…”

“And I think where we can provide additional value that we can charge for is in, in making this open source easier to use. And coming from companies like Airbnb and Twitter, where UX is, is really essential, I think we can apply the same to open source, and I t…”

“Now over time, things go up. So whatever used to be proprietary over time may become open source. You just need to keep up one level on top of it and providing more value than anybody else can at your level.”

“Open source software, web services from the cloud, which means that the cost in terms of time and money of launching a new service Has declined asymptotically to zero. Not building it out into a full business, but launching it.”

“If you don't have that early, what starts, and you don't know what that is, then potential customers and partners don't know what you're going to charge for in the future and all that, and it makes it, the longer you go on without having a model, the harder it…”

“The virtual machines that run on our cloud the majority of the software that's loaded on them is also open source.”

“A community manager is not going to drive adoption like the best engineer on the planet actually building something good.”

“The way my university and any other university gives tenure is they look at your reputation. That's how these things are being decided. And so Joe Blow has the incentive To publish as much as he can, because that's how he gains a reputation. And so everything …”

“So you can have projects like OpenSSL might be a project that was really, really popular. Lots of people use it, but not actually healthy. Until we separate those things out, then you have the problem of people saying, well, if it's, you know, if no one's main…”

“Yeah, yeah, so, so the cathedral and the bazaar is, is a very, very old Ericus Raymond essay on, like, basically describing open source, especially early open source, and at one point he does get into, like, the incentives that people have, and the incentives …”

“If you're in an open source dog pile, as I mentioned in order of caution, it's especially rampant. That can actually drive your entire upside of ever being a half billion dollar a year software company. Like your probabilities go down really hard.”

“History tells us that the largest software companies in the world that get into the hundreds of billion in valuation, that's not what they did. They caught mega trends.”

“Community development's really important, but if you just develop a little community, and it doesn't change a CIO, a CTO, anyone that's writing as serious as checks priorities, like by definition, you didn't build a software company that had an opportunity to …”

“So what buyers are trying to escape from, and one reason they want open source as a Protective measure, even if they don't use it, is the right to keep using their software without paying more and more for it every year. Companies like Oracle have been out the…”

“While product market fit often accrues to individual users, value market fit typically centers on departmental and enterprise buyers and is measured by revenue.”

“I sort of think one way to think about blockchains is they're doing for the service layer, what open source software did for the software layer for like, for software running live in production, you know, you can now have services that are open and committed t…”

“Security through obscurity was a very bad way to do it. The much more secure way to do it is actually open source. Basically put the code in public and then basically build the code in such a way that when it runs it doesn't matter whether somebody has access …”

“Open source software is, you know, it is quite literally, you know, it's the technological equivalent of free speech, which means it's the technological equivalent of free thought.”

“Like an AI model is not software at the end of the day. And so open source software used to be supported by people donating their time or big companies kind of authorizing their employees to donate their time. So it was sort of like a bulk in kind You know, do…”