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Open source is a fire-hose of value... (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, I would love that but let me see if I can play devils advocate and get productive responses that work in the capitalistic world we are stuck in.

Why would a company pay a team millions of dollars annually to give it away for free. That destines their entire company for failure in their mind. They get no kick backs other than a thank you note for doing so... Which means nothing to their bottom line but down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

i think you misunderstood it.

take a look at libreoffice, proxmox, pfsense, flexiwan, canonical, redhat if you want an example of this business model actually working, at different stages of success.