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When I think of OSS companies, I think of financially-precarious companies like Mozilla (nonprofit so it’s kind of maneuverable), and companies like RedHat and

When I think of OSS companies, I think of financially-precarious companies like Mozilla (nonprofit so it’s kind of maneuverable), and companies like RedHat and Canonical that rely solely on donations/enterprise support contracts. So I would suppose that his take warrants a “duh.”

alephnerd 3y ago
> RedHat This is now IBM. Also donations =/= support contracts from a revenue generation standpoint (mostly looking at Canonical in this case). Companies like Hashicorp are better compared with other OSS core companies like Confluent, Kong, Sysdig, and Hortonworks (talk about a throwback).
- gymbeaux 3y ago
  It's a subsidiary of IBM, and if I had said "IBM" instead of "RedHat" nobody would understand what I was referring to.
  - alephnerd 3y ago
    Fair enough!
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