Think the MBA speak for this is “commoditising you competition”. It’s when you use open source or zero pricing to either offensively or defensively to nullify an advantage your competitor has. Google attacks Apple by offering an open source OS (Android). Now everyone can make a phone.
They defend against Facebook controlling the internet by offering an open source browser (Chrome/ium).
Microsoft defends against irrelevance in the Linux age by open sourcing .Net Core. So now you’re just writing code for .Net, not Linux.
FB open sources dev tools to both attack and defend the talent pool.
Google open sources Flutter to counter React, decides it can show FB how it’s done.
Google also puts out K8S because AWS ate their cloud lunch and they need to show they also get it. Now you’re just running on K8S, not AWS.
AWS just open sourced a JDK. Now we can all give Oracle the finger.
Apple sits in their spaceship, not giving a fuck. Chris Lattner tried to open source for the sake of OSS, with LLVM and Swift, but he left.
They defend against Facebook controlling the internet by offering an open source browser (Chrome/ium).
Microsoft defends against irrelevance in the Linux age by open sourcing .Net Core. So now you’re just writing code for .Net, not Linux.
FB open sources dev tools to both attack and defend the talent pool.
Google open sources Flutter to counter React, decides it can show FB how it’s done.
Google also puts out K8S because AWS ate their cloud lunch and they need to show they also get it. Now you’re just running on K8S, not AWS.
AWS just open sourced a JDK. Now we can all give Oracle the finger.
Apple sits in their spaceship, not giving a fuck. Chris Lattner tried to open source for the sake of OSS, with LLVM and Swift, but he left.