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With @salil at #OpenCoreSummit happening while I'm between jobs I finally have a chance to write the essay I've wanted to write for 7 years -- OSS has killed the independent software business.
I say this with no judgement. It's not good or bad. It just is.
I say this with no judgement. It's not good or bad. It just is.
There are a lot of great software companies out there and more of them are created every day, but it is virtually impossible to build a huge pure software company from scratch anymore. Why? OSS.
If you write OSS, you can only monetize it indirectly - consulting, training, running it as a service. If you don't do one of those things, (a) no one pays you since the SW is just there for the taking and (b) someone will just run it as a service anyway and make all the money.
