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by pabs3
2242 days ago
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This isn't a new problem, for eg web hosting companies have been selling Apache/PHP hosting for decades. Apache and PHP were made more useful because of that reselling rather than being negatively affected by it. I think the only difference now is these OSS companies are VC backed so they have to get huge growth to pay back their giant loans. I watched a talk recently that argued that Amazon increases the size of the market available for the software the OSS companies are producing. So the pie increases in size and the result is likely to be more money available for the software, not less. The OSS companies you refer to are more about using OSS as the new shareware, a loss leader or poison pill to sell proprietary software, their business model isn't about open source at all. |
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That's a good point.
> their business model isn't about open source at all.
(What do you consider open source biz models?)
> OSS as the new shareware
I think I understand what you mean. At the same time, in my case using only the OSS parts of the open core software, has been more than what I've needed
> I watched a talk recently
That talk sounds interesting, ... If you remember the name or speaker maybe I can find it?