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Amazon, Google and hundreds of others show otherwise. They have tens of billions of dollars in revenue from open source. Open source is probably supporting revenue in the hundreds of billions now.

However without closing the gap between the creators and monetizers this model can't sustain itself and the party will eventually crash.




As I said, I was referring to small companies.

Amazon or Google don't open source the main software they use make money from. Only supporting infrastructure software and research.

For a small company it's possible to open source the main product if you use GPL or AGPL.




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