What Alex Komoroske thinks about open source
American technologist; former head of corporate strategy at Stripe and product leader at Google, co-founder and CEO of Common Fabric, and writer of the weekly Bits and Bobs notes.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Alex Komoroske has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAll software is effectively open source now. Agents can decompile and do a clean-room implementation of almost anything. What would have been a gargantuan undertaking is now a hobbyist’s afternoon. Software is no longer scarce.