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What Makes the Open Source Web So Beautiful
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Matt says that Open Source does not prevent anyone from starting on it. Shopify, for example, only has ~800,000 merchants which puts them at 1-2% of all the market share, but they have been able to build a huge business with just those couple percent.
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