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While more products in a market does make it less likely that a new competitor will gain share, the fact that free tools exist to do almost any coding-related activity so significantly lowers barriers to entry that it seems very likely that the net effect of open source is lower barriers overall.

In any case, I'm not sure that the existence of competitors can be considered a barrier to entry.




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