Open Source Software

“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…”

“The reality is when you're getting open weights, you're not getting, it's not the same thing because all you get is the fixed weights that allow you to run the model. What you don't know is the black box inside those weights and how they work.”

“A lot of the way that we built software, which was like, we're going to build all these little shims in between, and there's going to be all this open source software and I'm going to use yours and you're going to use mine and it's going to make my life easier…”

“Unlike actual software open source, just because you release your model doesn't mean somebody can replicate it. Like to replicate it, you'd have to like recreate the data pipeline and the training pipeline.”

“And I feel like this has been used as a weapon against open source software as well, right? Which is really unfortunate.”

“Over time, we eventually hired two more software engineers as we continued to scale, but it was like incredibly clear that that was not going to work. Cause what we were doing was we were taking all the money from the consulting business and like shoveling it …”

“Everything is our own or almost everything is our own. We don't use open source nearly as much as other companies do.”

“And today I think it really under appreciated under discussed aspect of the technology world is that the vast majority of software that runs in the world is open source software, which was a movement that was dismissed much like blockchains are today, 20 years…”

“Because composability, this Lego brick feature of open source software is, to me, the compounding interest of software.”

“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.”

“So blockchains are to centralize services as open source software was to centralize operating systems, right? Like this is, that's what we're doing here. We're trying to open the services layer of the internet.”

“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 …”

“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…”

“I think you can build an open source company predicated on open source software in a distributor way and distribute away because you have thousands of contributors or hundreds of contributors all around the globe to open source software and you're managing and…”

“We think about dbt open source. It's really the guts of the data transformation. It's where you describe your business logic. And then on the cloud side, we build proprietary software that supercharges the development life cycle and the productionization of db…”

“A lot of businesses understand that if you're in business, you have insurance. Right? You have insurance. You pay your vendors because you want that support. You want that dependability of always being there. And this is no different. You're buying a tool. You…”

“There's probably no better signal than when you compete with a free open source platform and your product is exploding, even at an early day, because it's gotta be magical.”

“And so generally our view is kind of, okay, well, like if this actually is an improvement, compound could just do this.”

“99% of the software that your listeners are interacting with on a daily basis is open source software.”

“95% of the software in the world, if not more, is open source software.”

“There's an old saying in the open source software world that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. And what that means is, oftentimes when you're programming, there's some kind of bug in your code, and you just cannot find it. And if you get another s…”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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 …”

“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 …”

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

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

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

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

“That concept does actually apply in lots of areas of life, that if you get a lot of people looking at something, people can say, hey, there's actually a problem here that maybe nobody else noticed, and then sometimes after it's been pointed out, you say, oh ye…”

“Open source software is going to be key.”

“Unless there's something proprietary in the open source, which by definition it's sort of already out there and open I think it's very difficult for a license to protect you from Amazon coming up with good enough in a competing service.”

“It's not clear that open source equals good quality yet.”

“They were doing a sort of typical top-down sales approach and the type of go to market dynamics usually reserved for the Siebels and you know, oracles of the world, and you couldn't do that then, you can't do it now.”

“In 2005, it was a lot cheaper to start a startup than it had been a few years earlier. Servers and bandwidth were cheaper, there was more open source software, and the internet had become a really good vehicle for getting attention, so you were no longer depen…”