Class Discussion Reflection

During our class discussion, I saw how the industry shifted its perspective of viewing open source as a way of saving money and resources to a strategy that is used for collaboration. We explored how companies now collaborate in the “commodity layer” which is essential to fundational plumbing in a way to shre the cost while also having that unique “differentation layer”. We had also looked at some breakdowns from revenue models like Open Core and SassS which shows how “free” software can be used as a stepping stone for multibillion-dollar businesses like Red Hat. Our discussion really opened my eyes that open source is fundational to building the core of a business strategy for mordern technology.