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So it seems making money by developing open source products is hard. I wonder how many more we will see this and next year? And is the open source model actuall

by Ekaros 3y ago

So it seems making money by developing open source products is hard. I wonder how many more we will see this and next year? And is the open source model actually broken outside hobbyist and large enough projects with enough players like Linux...

rwmj 3y ago
Or it works just fine. I imagine that Redis would be OK if it was just a small company with a few consulting developers. Expecting to build a huge business around it with y-o-y increasing shareholder returns only works for a very very few companies.