open source

“The open source has to be good enough to get started, good enough, easy to get started and use it, so it will have mass distribution, but it has to get to a point where it's hard to scale it, it's hard to make it production grade, and this is where commercial …”

“The economics of open source really can work as a business model, as a way to drive down customer acquisition costs if you're talking about infrastructure, but I am unaware of it ever working as a way of, as something that's powering the business model when it…”

“Matt's a great guy, and he was one of the few who traversed that successfully. There's, most don't, right? I mean, they just don't.”

“And that's really how the bigger open source communities thrive is with full-time developers who are paid by whatever XYZ corporation to develop the technology going forward.”

“Because the point is, is there's no real point in just being another open source alternative to XYZ. It's like, no, you're right. If you have an open source Facebook alternative, it's not going to do well.”