Paul Dix

But ultimately, I think open source software is still going to be a thing.

It's still going to be important.

You're still...

you're still gonna want to adopt well-developed software rather than just try and write it from scratch, right?

you know, who has a cursor may have been able to spin up like a, you know, a browser from scratch, getting the agents to do it, but it's not, it's not Chrome.

It's not Firefox.

Yeah.

I mean, I, I think, you know, there's, it's really difficult for open source, like software companies at this stage.

I would expect to see fewer open source software companies, really.

Like if people are going to do something, they'll do source available, or it just doesn't make sense to, to, to do open source really.

Like,

you do open source if it's not like the actual product you're trying to sell, right?

So if it's like, you know, if you have a social network and you want to open source these libraries and do whatever, that's fine.

But I think more and more for people who build infrastructure software, who want to sell it, they'll probably be doing source available licenses, if anything, because, you know, it's just like there's,

It's too easy for anybody to pick up the source code and then run wild with it and do whatever.

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, it's funny because like before, I feel like over the last 20 years, you know, a lot of developers did open source in the early days.

Specifically for like junior developers, they would do open source because it was a way to like,

get some practice, get some examples of work that you've done to help raise your profile, to help you ultimately get a better job.

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