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In many cases these open core companies are not “giving nothing back”, but are funding engineer salaries on the order of millions of dollars per year to invest
by yesimahuman 3y ago
In many cases these open core companies are not “giving nothing back”, but are funding engineer salaries on the order of millions of dollars per year to invest in the OSS project that they use as customer acquisition for a commercial cloud and enterprise offering on top. Companies like Vercel and Ionic both employ this model. I think people often forget how much these companies invest and “give back” to the community in terms of raw dollar investment