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Discussion on: I'm Joseph Jacks, founder of OSS Capital, ask me anything!

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Mark Constable Jr

How practical (or irrational) are fears of a budding startup going the open source route from having business logic stolen from competitors?

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Joseph Jacks

In fact, you should encourage competitors to use, collaborate, build products around and standardize on your open source project. Open source transforms the very idea of competition to one of validation, partnership, expansion, distribution and value creation.