[tptacek]

Who isn't selling specific software to specific niches? Your choice of license isn't going to make you any more successful with a new word processor.

It's also not true that all successful open-source companies sell to enterprises. Tenable sells Nessus to consultants. Sleepycat sold Berkeley DB to OEMs and developers. Automattic certainly doesn't sell Wordpress to enterprises.

[tentonova]

You're introducing a logical non-sequitur. That there is a niche isn't the issue, it's what the niche is.

Enterprise services.

The fact that they're also not actually selling GPL software (ie, an indirect business model), this all doesn't really disprove my point -- or the original authors.