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I don't think that's what he's saying.

It's not about "making the big leagues" or getting hired by Oracle. It's about growing your startup into a big company that embraces this culture.

Look at Facebook. It is officially a very big company now, and it is doing amazing things for the community like Cassandra and HipHop for PHP.

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"These young startup entrepreneurs will soon graduate to executive positions at large U.S. corporations, and will bring their trusted like-minded soldiers with them to radically evolve the culture of the business. In less than ten years we will witness open source software coming out of Goldman Sachs or Bloomberg."

I agree that if companies that release open source software now grow bigger then they will still release source, but from that quote it's clear to me that that's not what he's talking about.

The people running Facebook are releasing a lot of cool stuff, but I don't see them lining up to move to Goldman Sachs to release stuff there instead.

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