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Wikipedia, Linux, Blender, Firefox are all what?

• Lvl999Noob 5y ago
  This might be survivorship bias talking. I do not have any examples with me but I am quite sure, there are a lot more projects that ended up dead.
  • op03 5y ago
    They are not Ad based models proving non ad based models exist and work especially in the domain of free rider/collective action problems.
  • paxys 5y ago
    Most projects end up dead, ad supported or not. I don't think that's an argument one way or another.
• ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  I would call them the exceptions that prove the rule.
  • auggierose 5y ago
    Kind of like special relativity is an exception to Newtonian mechanics? It's good to know the rules, but you shouldn't live your life by them.
  • fnord123 5y ago
    That's not what that means. It means a sign saying "no blue cars" is the exception proving the rule that non-blue cars are allowed.
• tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  Didn't Linus make an announcement on Usenet when he started the project. A form of advertising.
• sokoloff 5y ago
  I could have sworn I’ve seen ads for Firefox. I know I’ve seen ads in Firefox, some placed by Mozilla, but I could have sworn I’ve seen ads for Firefox not in Firefox. (This is nearly impossible to Google for due to all the hits for ad-blockers.) Mozilla spends 10s of millions every year on “advertising and promotion” per their financial statements, though they have other things to advertise about than just Firefox.