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424 points kaycebasques | 1 comments | 20 Aug 24 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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throwaway984393 ◴[20 Aug 24 12:44 UTC] No.41299559[source]▶
Don't start your company as open source. It will attract the wrong customers (the ones who don't give you money but sure like to complain) and detract from building your product. If you can build a successful product, open source it afterwards to give you a competitive advantage without being a drag.
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1. mobeigi ◴[20 Aug 24 16:10 UTC] No.41301313[source]▶
Agreed. I generally don't have an issue with companies private sourcing their work when they are the dominant contributor to it. I have a much bigger problem with companies that do it that have benefited dominantly from the contributions of others. For example, imagine if the Linux kernel went private.