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Matthias Vallentin's avatar

Illuminating reflection on the pros of open-source. Thanks! I think a great complementary post would be to highlight the risks of going all-open. At the end of this post, I was wondering "what are the reasons for *not* going full open source?".

Sven Balnojan PhD's avatar

Thanks. FWIW for the data space I have one draft which is about exactly that, alternatives that work better (depending on the situation). Ultimately I think the question comes down to: do you aim for building a platform/ecosystem? If so, how are you going to feed it, the network effects necessary to keep it running. If you have an answer that involves less open source, you got your answer