In reply to David H. Deans.

David, I totally agree with you that the role of Open Source has evolved greatly and is the engine fueling startup agility and scale like we have never seen before. This was a key premise of "The New Kingmakers". When in doubt, open source will win vs proprietary.

It's probably just semantics and framing, but the 'software eating the world' is more about the disruption and new business models to me. Traditional enterprises theoretically have access to the same open source tools, but it's the classic Innovator's dilemma and a lack of agility that cause them to be disrupted by Unicorns. Netflix, Uber, or Lyft are not open source solutions themselves that are eating the world, however, many of their app developers are relying on open source sw and tools to hack their way (+ proprietary cloud solutions in some cases). I guess in my view the software eating the world premise is just as true now as 2011, and is more focused on the end application/customer experience and resulting disruption, not simply the SW inputs as apart of the SDLC of the apps which likely are open source.

Either way, I am with you on the Open Source way. #OpenStack