This is super important, and critical reading for anyone commenting on OSS financing. I've been a product management lead for 2 commercial open-core companies

This is super important, and critical reading for anyone commenting on OSS financing. I've been a product management lead for 2 commercial open-core companies and people drastically overestimate: - How much code the community contributes (in both cases, >95% of all code was written by employees hired by the commercial company) - How few commercial resources are needed to support the community (running forums, answering GitHub tickets, etc) - How much financial support is actually forthcoming when there's not some "locked commercial features" As the paper points out, many of these widely used commercial projects receive a few hundred thousand dollars at most in donations (often much less) but need to employ more developers than that financing can support to maintain a baseline capability to address basic bug fixes (including security fixes) once they become "popular enough" to be known by the masses.