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by iandinwoodie 1972 days ago
I went on the same search. For those interest in formal definition: Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software (reference: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03132-8_...).
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"owned" is definitely not the right verb there.

"Exclusively commercially supported because there's no demand for a competitor" ...?