Fireside Chat with Paul Graham [video]

Post by atomatica » Sat, Jul 04, 2015, 5:28 AM UTC

seiji wrote: post #33

bane wrote: post #29

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There was an enterprise cloud company I once worked with. They had built a layer on top of HDFS and some nice admin tools to go along with it. Their customers hired them to build out systems that would provide in-house clouds and their tooling helped make HDFS deployment, management and integration a bit easier. They decided to open source all of their software at some point which meant their model went from: - Provi…

developing it all was what the business was about It is interesting how some software is more amenable to being "business open source" than others. If your software is touching online, realtime, and mission-critical data, that's a good fit for open source + support / add-ons. You can sell add-ons and ease of use and peace of mind. Some databases have been good open source companies, some have failed, and some are jus…

Post by amelius » Sat, Jul 04, 2015, 12:25 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #27

bane wrote: post #19

I really liked his idea that the users teach you about what you've made. That's a really great philosophical point. I think his comments about open source are interesting and how he's never seen anybody open source too much. I humbly disagree, I've definitely seen a few startups get nowhere because they ended up open sourcing their entire product, meaning nobody needed to pay them for anything. There needs to be a st…

Re Dropbox: AFAIK, most of the magic happens in the client. The way they seamlessly integrate with different OSes seemingly as an innocuous folder that blends in with rest of the other folders is genius. See: https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-t... and http://allthingsd.com/20120815/inside-dropboxs-reverse-engin...