“I like to say open source is not free like pizza. It’s free like a puppy. You take it home and don’t feed it, it’s going to eat your furniture, your shoes,” said Black.

Balkansky called open source software the “lifeblood of software,” which makes it “foundational and baked into everything.” The problem, Balkansky added, is that “the business model for open source is still very much work in progress.”