Unfortunately, this is known business model, most known example was Eclipse IDE, which killed all small IDE businesses. Other example, MySQL from Oracle.
Yes, idea, to make basically free something, on which small-medium businesses could survive and grow to something big, so making big death valley between small and big businesses.
Only exception are tiny businesses, living in tiny niches, but for them nearly impossible to overcome gap from tiny to big.
And you should understand, "open models" are in reality open-weight models, as they not disclose sources from which trained, so community cannot remake model from scratch.
Headhunting is sure important, but big business typically are so much finance powerful, so they could just buy talents.
- Headhunting with reputation is really important for small businesses, because they typically very limited in finances.
Medium business typically between small and big, but as I said at beginning, making some strategic things free, create death valley, so it become very hard to be medium.
Reputation is good thing for all, but again, top corporations are powerful non-proportional to size, so in many cases for them is relatively cheap to just maintain neutral reputation, they don't need to spend much to whitening.
Yes, idea, to make basically free something, on which small-medium businesses could survive and grow to something big, so making big death valley between small and big businesses.
Only exception are tiny businesses, living in tiny niches, but for them nearly impossible to overcome gap from tiny to big.
And you should understand, "open models" are in reality open-weight models, as they not disclose sources from which trained, so community cannot remake model from scratch.
Headhunting is sure important, but big business typically are so much finance powerful, so they could just buy talents.
- Headhunting with reputation is really important for small businesses, because they typically very limited in finances.
Medium business typically between small and big, but as I said at beginning, making some strategic things free, create death valley, so it become very hard to be medium.
Reputation is good thing for all, but again, top corporations are powerful non-proportional to size, so in many cases for them is relatively cheap to just maintain neutral reputation, they don't need to spend much to whitening.