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That's the only business model as long as you ignore Automattic, Chef, CloudBees, Cloudera, Confluent, Databricks, DataStax, Gradle, Hashicorp, nginx, Puppet, R
by tedivm 7y ago
That's the only business model as long as you ignore Automattic, Chef, CloudBees, Cloudera, Confluent, Databricks, DataStax, Gradle, Hashicorp, nginx, Puppet, RedHat, and many others.
- pnako 7y agoSome of those companies make money by selling proprietary software. They are thus proprietary software companies, and bad examples of open source software business models.
- moritzplassnig 7y agoWhat are good examples?
- pnako 7y agoRed Hat. They work with the community upstream, and they open source all their stuff.