There are a million ways in which your business can go belly up, there is so much that can go wrong at any point. I see these open source startups and I just ca

There are a million ways in which your business can go belly up, there is so much that can go wrong at any point. I see these open source startups and I just cannot fathom how clueless MOST of these people need to be to build their businesses around an ideology. I guess if you start from a very specific strategy and you make sure that the FREE/OSS route is the optimal for the sake of your business, it can make sense. Honestly if this happens to me, I would probably get discouraged by the track record of such companies, and just backtrack into a model with a better one, in order to give my business the best possible chance.