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by blantonl 1237 days ago
you realize that organizations that develop open source software can sell support contracts, consulting, services, hosting, etc, all things that generate revenue.

I guess you could have said the same about RedHat, yet IBM acquired them for $34 billion. I wonder why they would pay that much for an open source company? Hmmmm... there must be a reason?

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IP? Patents?

Other companies use those technologies and have to pay for commercial licenses? They can freeze out competitors? I don't know, just spitballing.