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0 pointsdarkr10y ago0 comments

Plenty of successful businesses are built around providing support, services or premium features for an otherwise open-source project.

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Name one (other than RedHat) that is consistently profitable.

Novell (now Micro Focus)

2ndQuadrant

Yeah, but the economics of those businesses do not scale as well as software.

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Name one (other than RedHat) that is consistently profitable.

Novell (now Micro Focus)

2ndQuadrant

Yeah, but the economics of those businesses do not scale as well as software.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse