Investing in Open-Source

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Makes a business case with concrete examples and numbers: Netscape opens source code and spawns Mozilla and Firefox, npm hosts 1.3 million npm packages, and the single‑maintainer risks shown by the left‑pad incident are real. Describes products and tooling: conduit — real‑time data orchestration is open sourced to gain connectors and ecosystem contributions. Argues open source lowers time and cost if projects get multiple maintainers, explains monetization routes (cloud, consulting, premium features) and warns security is only better when many experts sustain the code.

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1. 0:00Open-source investment intro
2. 3:08Why businesses invest
3. 8:22Business models & success
4. 12:09Open-sourcing products
5. 14:39Security in open-source
6. 17:05Engineer benefits
7. 21:38Contribute & invest

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