A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. But working harder is not, in fact, smarter. We're cheaper. It's not bad to be cheaper. Are these assertions unfair? Do you have more false-advantages to add?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source. We build our own WordPress plugins and make them open-source and free.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? Now that Facebook has open-sourced their entire data center infrastructure, does that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Facebook as a social network?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

We're thinking of going open-source — it's free. You: Open-source is free like puppies are free. We do things open-source would never do. Bugs are a reality, and that's when open-source starts to become non-free in a hurry. I know, "most expensive" doesn't automatically imply "best!"

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

WordPress has impressive traction for an open-source tool, but it’s orders of magnitude less prevalent than it is today, so I can’t find customers in droves like we now do. circa 2008.) According to Erica’s criteria, let’s see who wins.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

WordPress itself is open source; Automattic (the company behind WordPress) couldn't kill off this community if they tried. Unlike Twitter, where social media marketing consultants don't care which Twitter clients are most popular. Unlike Apple, where they rule with an iron fist no matter the consequences.

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