How Open Source Code Became a Corporate Competitive Weapon

Lucas and Luna explore how major companies like Microsoft, Google, and Meta use open-source contributions to shape industry standards, recruit top talent, and kill competitor moats. They discuss the strategic calculus behind releasing core infrastructure for free, using examples like Google's Kubernetes and Meta's React. The episode examines the tension between community idealism and corporate pragmatism, and asks whether open source remains a public good or has become a corporate arms race. A concrete look at the numbers: Google's 2025 contribution to the Linux kernel, Meta's annual open-source budget, and Microsoft's surprising pivot from open-source enemy to top contributor. #OpenSource #CorporateStrategy #Linux #GitHub #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Kubernetes #React #CommunityGovernance #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechStrategy #DeveloperEcosystem #ContributorGraph #OpenSourceEconomics #Licensing Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo