You have a few counter examples to that : Wordpress, Ubuntu or CentOS. I guess it's unfair to count Android and Chrome here. For a lot of companies, open sourc

You have a few counter examples to that : Wordpress, Ubuntu or CentOS. I guess it's unfair to count Android and Chrome here. For a lot of companies, open source / community edition is a great way to do efficient marketing. For some it does work pretty well, people test your thing, they like it and end up needing services around that. Acquiring users / customers is such a tough job that getting it done through open source is a bargain for a lot of them.