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Any examples of companies that opened previously closed source that continued to offer that product?

• cpitman 5y ago
  I work for Red Hat, we do it all the time. We often acquire closed source companies and then release the software as open-source, while continuing to offer it. I believe the most recent example was Stackrox, open sourced March 31st. The "productized" version is Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security. https://www.stackrox.io/blog/open-source-stackrox-is-now-available/ https://www.stackrox.io/blog/open-source-stackrox-is-now-ava...
• tshaddox 5y ago
  The web framework Remix was closed source and available only to license purchasers for about a year, until they announced their seed funding in October of last year: https://remix.run/blog/seed-funding-for-remix#open-source https://remix.run/blog/seed-funding-for-remix#open-source
• zwily 5y ago
  The Canvas LMS: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
  • Trasmatta 5y ago
    Canvas was open source from the start. Schools have always been able to run their own instance, but most just pay Instructure to do it.
    • zwily 5y ago
      It wasn't open source at the beginning. (I know, I was there.) We open-sourced it early on, but it started as closed-source software.
• blooalien 5y ago
  Blender 3D might be one of the more well-known success stories in that regard. Godot game engine also perhaps? Gotta be more'n a few others as well, I'm sure. Those are just two that instantly come to mind for me (being a couple of my favorites that were both closed source at one time in their history and have gone on to massive and continual success since their open sourcing).