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mnkmnk
I have never understood how open sourcing a core component of your business makes sense.
irickt
It may be a case of "Commoditizing Your Complements".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1250958

mnkmnk
Interesting article! Thanks for sharing. I fail to see what is their "complement" that benefits by commoditizing netbox. In fact it could be used to create a competitor. Are digitalocean not selling just VPS anymore? I am curious what DO has up their sleeve, because they were really ahead of their time with 5$ VPSs.