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I've been wondering about open source software as a service. Could you make web software, theme it, and offer it as a pay for service. Think amazon or maybe eba

• aaronbrethorst 18y ago
  This is exactly what Wordpress does. I doubt anything very interesting would happen if Amazon or eBay opened their source, because their internal applications are likely such a rat's nest of interdependencies. It would take 6 mo - 1 year of full time study (i.e. the amount of time it takes a new hire to ramp up) for anyone to even begin to understand exactly how the systems fit together. Even with the time and energy to learn how their code works, you'd still need to replicate their internal environments to be able to run their apps.