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0 pointsclarry11y ago0 comments

> The way you make money with open-source is by not trying to sell the open-source product. Apple releases lots of stuff as open-source, but it's not a problem because they don't want to sell you Clang.

In other words, the way you make money with open source is by not making money with open source. The downside of this is that you don't make money with open source.

Unless you count using open source (as it contributes to the development and monetization of the non-open-source software you make money with). But then you could say everyone is using open source to make money, which I think misses the point the article is trying to make.

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pessimizer11y ago

>But then you could say everyone is using open source to make money, which I think misses the point the article is trying to make.

Which is that you can't make money by selling open source software? That's pretty obvious. I think the point of the article is to discuss possible ways (or whether it is ultimately impossible) to make money for a company that produces open source software, which is not something everyone can claim to be doing.

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