We have no moat, and neither does open source(www.scottgoci.com)

6 pointsby eggbrain6 hours ago1 comment

verdverm5 hours 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
- wmf4 hours ago
  There have been plenty of open source projects that view themselves as natural monopolies and treat the existence of alternatives as something akin to high treason. They never admit this of course.
- eggbrain5 hours 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".
  - verdverm5 hours 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