That goes without saying. Building a successful company is hard enough. Doing it based on an open source product is even harder. But companies that do this righ

That goes without saying. Building a successful company is hard enough. Doing it based on an open source product is even harder. But companies that do this right generate far more good will from their users than companies building strictly closed source products. This is a good thing for users, customers, the company and its shareholders. But for this to work, it's important that the founders believe in open source as something more than just a business strategy.