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When your open source team faces pressure to abandon core principles

Our startup team is built around open source values but we're hitting revenue pressure and some of us want to close-source our core IP while others think that betrays everything we stand for, and we can't make decisions anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group committed to collaborative ideals discovers that external pressures can fracture shared philosophical foundations.

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