You might be interested in reading this story. Mike has run an enormously value-creating OSS project for several years. It is one of the most interesting tech

You might be interested in reading this story. Mike has run an enormously value-creating OSS project for several years. It is one of the most interesting technically-oriented business in the Ruby community, and one whose model should be studied with attention by many HN readers. Can I encourage people to have less reflexive skepticism about running a business on the Internet? Plenty of people do it. Some of those businesses make more money than you presently think is likely or possible. This is mostly a function not of spamminess or evil but rather that skeptics have an artificially constrained view of what is possible because skeptics have probably not run a similar business and skeptics may have holes in their understanding of how Internet businesses operate at modest scales. Previous HN thread for additional context, including (predictably) folks who said that the successful OSS project featured in it was a) not an OSS project and b) would never be successful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480854