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If it's open source you can make money by selling managed services to companies. They don't want to deal with it really.
by alightsoul 4mo ago
If it's open source you can make money by selling managed services to companies. They don't want to deal with it really.
- inigyou 4mo agoHow is Red Hat's revenue compared to Microsoft's?
- esseph 4mo agoAre you sure you want to put Microsoft on any kind of pedestal?
- achenet 4mo agoif your sole goal is making money, yes, because Microsoft have actually done a pretty good job of making money, even if that's generally at the cost of the well-being of people using their software.
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- alightsoul 3mo agoAre we sure it's because they have closed source as a moat, or because they have the first mover advantage? I would say it's the latter because every single one of their products has fully functional, feature complete competitors even open source ones. Like apache superset and postgres