The Open Source Advantage: Faster Bugs, Better Builds, Wider Buy-In
VentureBeat, Saturday, April 19th, 2025
Software companies have a lot of decisions to make as they move through the stages of building a thriving business. Among the many issues to debate is whether or not to open source their technology. It's a big decision, and the licensing around open source receives a lot of attention in tech circles.
Part of the issue is that open source comes with a lot of strong opinions. Whenever a large company decides to restrict its license, even if it's for valid reasons, they can receive a lot of backlash (as HashiCorp and Elastic learned in recent years). On the other hand, excellent tech that's released as open source can quickly gather a lot of support from the open-source software (OSS) community.