https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854593
"I have no doubt the open source technology community is capable of producing great technologies with or without big tech funding. But will it be able to "productize" them and drive large scale adoption? I have my doubts but time will tell."

Why can't open source product-ize (in hopefully healthy ways)? A question for further pondering. Marketing comes to mind, but I suspect its a "rest of the owl" pareto type problem.