1998 Design Open Source PR 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. The New Exits. Tools in the New Bubble. Lessons Learned.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party.
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