Open Source Business Models Considered Harmful

John Mark
11 min readJan 4, 2019

Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog

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In recent months, the debate on so-called “open source business models” has begun to rage once again, thanks to recent moves from Mongo, Redis Labs, and Confluent. Taken individually, each situation presents unique characteristics that warrant further analysis without jumping to conclusions about each entity. Taken together, however…

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John Mark

Recovering exvangelical. Long essays on politics, society, tech, and the intersection thereof.