Open Source (Almost) Everything

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  1. Don’t open source anything that represents core business value.
  2. Open source general purpose tools that can be used by all kinds of people and companies to build all kinds of things

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html

if the software doesn’t represent a competitive advantage, the follow on benefits of releasing it as open source software - whether it’s general goodwill, amortizing development costs, greater efficiencies in hiring and recruitment, etc -are believed to outweigh the costs. -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3268531

If in doubt consult your physician

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How does this advice stand in light of Google open-sourcing Tensorflow and SyntaxNet?

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Google has made open source part of their core business strategy for quite sometime.

Business, open source, and giving back to the community can walk hand in hand.

Kudos to Google and thanks for the links.

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