[fbartels]

> and build a business as the premier support consultants without most of the original developer's startup costs

I think a real world example for this would be https://www.collaboraoffice.com/about-us/. And looking at it from the outside a positive example as well. At least I could not find any public beef between collabora and the document foundation (as the organisation behind libreoffice).

[bayindirh]

Collabora guys push tons of code back to LibreOffice, too, as far as I can remember.