Is Open Source killing entry level product startups?

After reviewing PAW yesterday, I was thinking if Open Source is really killing entry level product companies or if it is enabling them. I had this dilemma because what would prevent any one from implementing PAW in open source and give it free to every one! True, one may not be implement features such as [...]

Review of PAW - Processing and Analytics Workbench

Came across this start up - PAW.
I must congratulate Mr. Rajat Gupta for venturing into software products. The product space is very empty with almost every one else wanting to start one more web2.0 website with no real revenue generation capabilites!
Coming to PAW 1.0 - as the name indicates this is a work bench to [...]