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DHH and basecamp made money because they are explicitly not open source and you have to pay for it. The fact they are built with RoR is an implementation detai
by sametmax 9y ago
DHH and basecamp made money because they are explicitly not open source and you have to pay for it.
The fact they are built with RoR is an implementation details. 37signals was very good at communication, Ror or not. Their blog and books were fantastic.
ROR as a FOSS may have helped, but I doubt it was instrumental.
- geebee 9y agoyes, exactly, they found a way to monetize a product other than their framework, and they used the OSS framework to draw attention to the non os project. Whether that was deliberate or unintentional, I don't know, but it certainly worked out. EDIT: I agree with you that the product is good, and that the communication was excellent, but I disagree that the success of ROR was minor to the success of that company. It brought a tremendous amount of attention.
- sametmax 9y agoBut here the RAD is the product. Their end game. Basecamp was the product, and ROR just a by product of it. Complety different.
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