What "business model"? IBM didn't charge for Symphony, and if you wanted to pay for support it was fantastically inexpensive. Even cheaper than I remembered,

What "business model"? IBM didn't charge for Symphony, and if you wanted to pay for support it was fantastically inexpensive. Even cheaper than I remembered, https://www.computerworld.com/article/2535199/ https://www.computerworld.com/article/2535199/ reports 20k users for $25k/year. So what business model was libreoffice disrupting, exactly? Because IBM at the time was mostly driven by NIH syndrome rather than some 4d-chess anti-freedom scheming.