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Will Open Source Become Bloated and Decrepit?

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Matt Asay
Oct 3, 2007

“Jesse Robbins over on the O’Reilly Radar offers up a sobering
reminder to those of us who feel that we are disrupting the
software industry for the better: we may well end up becoming that
which we disrupt. This is in line with Clay Christensen’s
‘innovator’s dilemma’ argument.

“In other words, you are what you eat. (Or will be what you
eat…)”

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