Best business models for open source software?

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depends what license I guess

redhat and suse seemed to be the only unicorns that did it right

enabling a service model is the only

Tin cup on the side of the road

Services (integrations and support)

Support services

Shitcoining seems to be a money spinner. You got morals or you want money?

Grants from open sats

Charge money

and make the source available but don't let anyone use it and then keep calling yourself open source.

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Surprisingly overlooked strategy 👆

Make a browser and convince Google to give you 1B per year just to be the default search in that browser.

look into some of the work filippo valsorda is doing. he went full time on open source over a year ago and has been exploring different models. as a person, he's insufferable, but he's intelligent and is really trying to figure out full time open source. https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer/