OOS is a multi-billion dollar business. Solr and Lucene are the largest search-related software today and Lucid Imagination provides services around it. Redha

OOS is a multi-billion dollar business. Solr and Lucene are the largest search-related software today and Lucid Imagination provides services around it. Redhat, IBM, Oracle, and even Facebook regularly release OSS and it's certainly related to huge profits it makes as well. Don't forget SuSE, github, collabnet, wordpress, sonatype, sourceforge, and TONS more.. The list goes on and on, but yes, it's a different demographic and the economics work different - BUT there is TONS of money to be made in OSS.