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We have no moat, and neither does open source

https://www.scottgoci.com/we-have-no-moat-and-neither-does-open-source/
5•eggbrain•49m ago

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verdverm•30m ago
I've never associated open source with attempts at moat making, it's like, counter ethos. Moats are a business mindset, which this author and project comes with.

An enterprise gets license scanning as a feature within a larger product, several examples already exist

eggbrain•22m ago
This is fair -- my title was a play on Google's "We have no moat, and neither does Open AI" (see: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat...), but moat gets a bit muddied when we are talking about open source.

In this sense, I applied the "moat" more to mean "best at what it does / what the library tries to accomplish".

verdverm•5m ago
I'm familar with the piece and use it myself to argue why we should not be so fast to sovereign wealth these companies facing commodification, and transferring the financial risks onto the public, like Too Big To Fail, the Ai edition

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