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> My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat Sun bought MySQL for 1 billion USD in 2008, does that not

• jedberg 5y ago
  I meant there were no successful public companies based on open source except RedHat in 2015.
• ZetaZero 5y ago
  MongoDB and Elastic are successful because they are locking features behind a paid license. Does that make it a successful open source company?
  • strzibny 5y ago
    But GitLab is the same concept...
  • codetrotter 5y ago
    GitLab has features in the Enterprise edition that aren’t in the Community edition don’t they?
    • djbusby 5y ago
      Correct.
    • ZetaZero 5y ago
      Yeah, I wasn't trying to say GitHub is different. Instead, this shows a route to profitability for these companies.