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title: "Monktoberfest 2016: David Smith - The Value of Open Source Communities"
date: 2016-11-18T00:02:55Z
modified: 2017-02-20T17:57:31Z
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  - Monktoberfest 2016
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  - RedMonk Tech Events
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timestamp: 2017-02-20T17:57:31Z
tags:
  - Monktoberfest 2016
  - RedMonk Tech Events
---

[David Smith](https://twitter.com/revodavid) explains that the value of software is driven by the ecosystem surrounding it. “The tech industry is littered with the carcasses of solutions that were technically superior but because they failed to form an ecosystem never really took off.”