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What kind of "vision" includes "we'll let others take our work for free, undercut us on pricing" that doesn't end up in bankrupcy for the company?

• jpgvm 3y ago
  The kind of vision where you deliver superior service and thus win business the old fashioned way?
• stakhanov 3y ago
  You mean like how Metallica went bankrupt when Napster came along? Oh, wait. That never happened.
  • tm-guimaraes 3y ago
    This is literally a redhat thread, there shouldn’t even be a need for an example
• tm-guimaraes 3y ago
  Redhat. Did you miss their huge profits? CDProjectRed, you could just copy your friend’s Witcher3 installer. It was a best seller. Interesting choices because Redhat is trying to chase higher highs without understanding what brought them there, and so does bullshit like this, While CDproject TeamRed after witcher, also got so greedy, but in this case on employee number, that old employees left, army of juniors/newhires building their next and most ambitious game. It was a dumpster fire on release day, and under delivered on everything, with plenty of delays. There’s also small businesses like sourcehut (but wamted to give 2 very different big ones), which its author wrote this: https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your-monopoly.html https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your... Some big start ups like Grafana are growing, and unlike Mong and Elastic, actually uses a free software license, but i dunno if they are profitable yet.
• josephcsible 3y ago
  It seemed to be working for them up until right after IBM acquired them.