More important, this means that open source encourages more people to participate in its creation and success. It’s like the right to tinker, the right to repair, the right to extend.” In other words, open source embraces the idea of software as a service-as a process.
Wang says, “What open source does is it opens the doors. Open source was early to clue into this fact. Software, in short, is always a process and not really a product. In addition to whatever customers pay for the software, they’re also going to pay additional fees for integration, customization, etc. Why? Because no matter how good the product, it never fully satisfies the needs of customers. At least in the enterprise world, this has never reflected reality. It’s about buildersįor years we’ve treated software as a product that some company delivers to you for a fee.
Although Excel has succeeded without open source, Wang believes Python will succeed precisely because of open source. Superior ease and productivity: This is the future Wang envisions for the popular Python programming language.
