What Kenton Varda thinks about open source
Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers, Durable Objects and Cap’n Proto; earlier the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2 at Google, and co-founder of Sandstorm.io.
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2 dated positions, 2014, in their own words. Our reading of what Kenton Varda has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIn today’s popular software-as-a-service model, indie development simply is not viable. People do it anyway, but their software is not accessible to the masses. In order for low-budget software to succeed, and in order for open source to make any sense at all, users must be able to run their own instances of the software, at no cost to the developer.
↗Open Source Web Apps Aren't Viable; Let's Fix Thatsandstorm.io
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Their wordsSoftware-as-a-Service and open source just don’t make sense together. It’s not really open source if you can’t run modified code, and the high barrier to entry shuts out hobby projects or anything unwilling to be monetized.
↗Open Source Web Apps Aren't Viable; Let's Fix Thatsandstorm.io
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