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by dragandj 2791 days ago
The article /does/ discuss that, and mentions that Open Source in the sense of software technology has been a huge success, but also that as a /business model/ is far, far, behind the proprietary models. It also mentions that there are another OS-based models that are successful, such as SaaS, cloud, etc.
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Basically models where having partial access to the source code still doesn't provide a way to clone a product at zero cost.