Proprietary Software
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6 statements about Proprietary Software, every show
Mullenweg predicts proprietary software utility will approach zero within 100 years
“And if you fast forward like 50 or a hundred years, I do believe that the utility of proprietary software eventually approaches zero. So like when we're sending people to Mars, the operating system of the rockets and the devices and everything like that is not…”
Open source is the optimal model over proprietary infrastructure software
“Which is why I think open source is in my opinion, the global maximum, because if there's a company supporting it, I can automate a lot of my undifferentiated work away. If I'm a company and for whatever reason, if I need to do it on prem, I also have that opt…”
Ghodsi: All proprietary software is vulnerable to disruption by open source
“In fact, I think open source has the potential to replace pretty much any software that's, Any proprietary software that exists on the planet today is, you know, in a really vulnerable state in the sense that it can be disrupted by an open source version, righ…”
Ghodsi: Any proprietary software company is ripe for open-source disruption
“Any proprietary software company out there is ripe for disruption by an open source competitor.”
Mullenweg: Proprietary software is an evolutionary dead end
“And I believe all proprietary software to be an evolutionary dead end.”
Novak: Sufficiently good open-source software consistently displaces proprietary infrastructure
“When the open source is good enough and pervasive enough, it does take over. It may not be as good. For example, if you look at KVM and VMware and you look at the features and function, but if it's free, It has a lot more value, and people are building a lot o…”