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I love the guy's actual answer. It's always interesting to see this be a question. What is yum's monetization strategy? What is apt's? Does any package manager have a monetization strategy? If anything, they might be components to a larger distro that itself sells enterprise support packages, but the software itself is rarely if ever monetized. Homebrew is BSD-licensed and currently run by a nonprofit. The original developer never tried to make it into a product and "monetized" by parlaying the experience he gained doing it into highly paid engineering jobs in spite of having no formal training in computer science or software development, and eventually started his own company when he got tired of working for Apple.