I think you may be surprised. There are very very large companies that surprisingly have hashicorp products deep in their central core - Vault is an obvious on

I think you may be surprised. There are very very large companies that surprisingly have hashicorp products deep in their central core - Vault is an obvious one. At the heart of all huge companies are InfoSec and architects looking for a solution they can trust will scale - and what better than the OSS product they have hands on experience with. It might not be profitable in Microsoft terms, but then again we won't see musicians earning like the Rolling Stones anymore. Open Source chnaged the software publishing game just like internet chnaged music, But there is enough profit out there.