[inigyou]

Because if it's open source you can't make money from it or have multiple tiers.

[alightsoul]

If it's open source you can make money by selling managed services to companies. They don't want to deal with it really.

[inigyou]

How is Red Hat's revenue compared to Microsoft's?

[alightsoul]

Are we sure it's because they have closed source as a moat, or because they have the first mover advantage? I would say it's the latter because every single one of their products has fully functional, feature complete competitors even open source ones. Like apache superset and postgres

[esseph]

Are you sure you want to put Microsoft on any kind of pedestal?

[achenet]

if your sole goal is making money, yes, because Microsoft have actually done a pretty good job of making money, even if that's generally at the cost of the well-being of people using their software.

[preisschild]

Not directly from it, but from the products you build on top. See Valve's use of Linux for example.