If you were building Odoo for the first time today would you still choose python? Would you use it the same way?

Are there ways being open source has contributed to Odoo's success beyond the obvious stuff like extensibility and ability to self-host?

Especially in a category like ERP that has a big integrator and reseller ecosystem.

Open Source is more a development model than a business model. It helps to evolve faster, but it's not a value for the end-user.

Today, we have way more free trials on the saas, than download of the open source version.

Our clients (entrepreneurs, CFO, logistic, HR ...) don't care that we are open source: they just want the best product, at a good price.

But it helped us grow our partner network of IT companies. For them, open source is a real value.

Mentally ill students are "mistakes"?

Clearly someone needs to tell Princeton that accepting John Nash was a mistake