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This is a very silly question. Open Source is a development methodology, not a business. It's like saying "There's still no viable business model for science."
by jra_samba 6y ago
This is a very silly question. Open Source is a development methodology, not a business.
It's like saying "There's still no viable business model for science."
Just makes no sense. I've been making a living on Open Source code (now at FAANG) for over 30+ years. It's all about the code, someone else does the business (thank goodness, I'm terrible at that :-).
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoIt's not that silly. Open source is actually a licensing model, not a development methodology. And the licensing implies that at least in theory anyone could get the licensed software at no cost. Given then "business" typically concerns money flowing from A to B, it is certainly not entirely obvious how one can build a business around a product whose theoretical cost is zero. People manage to do this of course, which simply points out that real world economics doesn't follow theory that well.