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by piokoch 4900 days ago
> Which raises an interesting question - how do you make money on a platform like this?

Sell trainigns, certification, support (QA tested fixes for bugs that affected you before they are released to the public). SUN was doing all of that and was pretty successful. The hardware part of the bussiness failed them because of flood of cheap comodity servers.