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What about the Red Hat model? People wondered how Linux would ever make money because it was open source. Then Red Hat was founded on providing support around
by japhyr 15y ago
What about the Red Hat model? People wondered how Linux would ever make money because it was open source. Then Red Hat was founded on providing support around open source software. If a service is useful to organizations, rather than just individuals, some kind of support contract might be profitable.
- rch 15y agoI've been wondering why open source projects seem to avoid the co-op business structure... imagine if Mozilla regularly distributed some of those google dollars to the entire pool of code contributors. Maybe there are not many serious external source contributions now (though there may well be), but that equation could change in a hurry if there was a meaningful disbursement involved.