open source
6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2021 by Tanmai Gopal · across every show →
Everything said about open source, oldest first
Aug 23, 2021 bearish
Successful commercial open-source companies globally can be counted on two hands
“The number of successful open source commercial companies are not too many in the world. That's not a SaaS playbook. It's not as well known as a SaaS playbook. It's very different. There are the number of open source commercial companies you can probably count…”
Aug 23, 2021 negative
Aug 31, 2024 neutral
Nadhani: FusionCharts Sold After 20 Profitable Years Due to Open-Source Headwinds
“So we ran it profitably for 20 years while you're selling. And the reason also we sold, we had just headroom, sorry, headwinds, which is Against open source, against the overall market itself sort of not growing as fast as we want, and we could see our competi…”
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Sharma: Government Tech Is Only DPI If It Enables Private Innovation
“They think every open source project is a DPI. They think every government tech is DPI, which is not true. Some government tech is DPI. If it enables private entrepreneurship or private innovation to happen on type on top, some open sources DPI. And all DPI is…”
Sep 19, 2025 bullish
Apr 2, 2026 positive
Jindal: Enterprise developers prefer open-source tools over SaaS for data privacy
“What we realized is that it's the developer at the larger companies wants to use open source, and if you are a developer at a, let's say, born on the web company, you actually want more of a off the shelf self-sell product. It doesn't have to be open source, a…”