[davidw]

To have a viable business, you need to figure out what sort of scarcity you're going to take advantage of:

https://journal.dedasys.com/2007/02/03/in-thrall-to-scarcity...

If the software is open source, the software itself is not scarce, so it makes it a bit trickier to figure out.

[finnreid19]

I run a Discord bot on ~30,000 servers and my bot is completely open source. Clones have popped up, but nothing can beat the network effect of having my bot's messages popping up in chats and other people adding it to their servers.