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There aren't many. You mentioned Canonical and Red hat IBM. For Canonical I actually don't know their model (they had Amazon search integrated but haven't seen
by johannes1234321 6y ago
There aren't many.
You mentioned Canonical and Red hat IBM. For Canonical I actually don't know their model (they had Amazon search integrated but haven't seen them in any business context) RedHat (now IBM) has servicesl/support.
For other I see with notable scale
- MySQL (nowadays Oracle) with services/support and dual licensing
- Qt (Trolltech/Nokia/Digi/Qt Company) with dial licensing and consulting services
-MongoDB, Redis, ElasticLabs all burning VC and support, dual licensing
After those the list becomes short for me. Most other open source software is side business, from doing something else (i.e. many Apache or Eclipse projects) or supported by small companies/individual developers who do consulting around it or got sometime from their employer to work on it.
- npm: burning VC (and offering commercial repo) (now GitHub/Microsoft not sure they want to see profits from it or only control of the environment)
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoIIRC, Canonical gets most of their money from server support licenses, analogous to Red Hat.
- johannes1234321 6y agoI know they sell it, but I haven't seen them (my bubble is small of course) I only see desperate attempts (like different attempts of bringing an "app store" to Linux, now with snap)
- srtjstjsj 6y agoCanonical is Mark Shuttleworth's passion project, like the Gates Foundation. It makes a little money but only survives because he feels it's the most efficient use of his funds for charitable purpose, not financial investment.