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The consulting model was decent 10 years ago but it's lousy today. It will come back in 5 years or so but as a model it isn't very different than non-open source professional services. So the question is how does open source advance in the face of these cycles and I think your point is that even if some folks can make some marginal profit at a particular point in time due to the way money flows in open source, the ecosystem doesn't advance much as the project governance is tied to the whims of the consulting business.