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You can have an open source product with a company behind it, they're not incompatible.

• bcruddy 10y ago
  Red Hat's market cap is almost $15B and they're worth $2B. Definitely not incompatible.
  • amscanne 10y ago
    This is like saying "the widget sells for $15 and the price is $2". I assume you mean they have $2bn in annual revenue?
    • bcruddy 10y ago
      Yeah.. whoops. Thanks for pointing that out.
• statictype 10y ago
  Right. My point was more that being open source in its own isn't always enough. Having a company behind it makes a difference to many people - more than the distinction between open vs closed. I was able to sell our company on Cassandra because there is a Datastax there to support it when the shit hits the fan.
• oldmanjay 10y ago
  Of course the entire point of this particular article is that they are pretty difficult to make profitable
  • scrollaway 10y ago
    You cannot draw that conclusion from the data at hand. There's plenty of closed source product companies that shut down because they didn't manage to make a profitable business as well.