[sreenadh]

Open sourcing the product will help the competition to catch up quickly, all they have to do is take googles product and change its look. The next half is infrastructure, which companies like Microsoft, facebook, amazon, alibaba all have. Plus services like AWS will help future version of dropbox & netflix.

A good example of that is Visual code. I am sure some at github (atom's paprent) is pissed.

[jryan49]

Wikipedia says it's not a fork of atom but based on electron. Does that make a difference?

[mahyarm]

VS code is MIT licensed although... And standalone web app in a slightly modified browser window isn't a high moat.