Cygnus, Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss etc. all had successful business models. Android, React and other projects come from companies with mixed business models, but th

Cygnus, Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss etc. all had successful business models. Android, React and other projects come from companies with mixed business models, but they have had success as well - there are billions of active Android phones, and many web sites running React. Some open source companies did not do well, but lots of closed source companies do not do well either. Also, open source is not just a business model - sometimes people just give software they wrote away.