August 29, 2019 – At first glance, the term co-opetition — a mashup of cooperation and competition — seems nothing more than an oxymoron. But in the open-source software world, it describes an approach that’s vital to success.
Because the decentralized software-development model is powered by peer production, the innovations of one open-source entity benefit the whole. Those innovations can then be taken into the marketplace and leveraged in a competitive nature.