And Open Source can't? Sure, Free (as in beer) OSS cannot, but there is such a thing as commercial OSS. I, personally, am toying with ideas of basing a startup around OSS (that is, a product business where the product is GPL's). Not sure how well it would work, but I think it could. It certainly works as a service business (support, consulting, etc), so even if a startup fails, the business does not have to be unprofitable.
And Open Source can't? Sure, Free (as in beer) OSS cannot, but there is such a thing as commercial OSS. I, personally, am toying with ideas of basing a startup around OSS (that is, a product business where the product is GPL's). Not sure how well it would work, but I think it could. It certainly works as a service business (support, consulting, etc), so even if a startup fails, the business does not have to be unprofitable.