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by abuckenheimer 2121 days ago
It's interesting to compare palantir's risk factor on open source vs pivotals[1]. Palantir takes a defensive posture saying basically that their ability to not contribute to open source without running afoul their licenses is important:

Our platforms contain “open source” software, and any failure to comply with the terms of one or more of these open source licenses could negatively affect our business.

Where as pivotal says that being an active part of a vibrant open source community is crucial:

If open-source software programmers, many of whom we do not employ, or our own internal programmers do not continue to use, contribute to and enhance the open-source technologies that we rely on, the market appeal of our offering may be reduced, which could harm our reputation, diminish our brand and result in decreased revenue.

Like this makes sense, palantir is a closed source first kinda company and obviously a different value to its customers than pivotal. Kinda interesting to see that manifestation in the risk factors though.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574135/000104746918...

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Here is Palantir's Github presence, with almost 200 open-source projects: https://github.com/palantir