Former MongoDB CEO Max Schireson wants to point you to “the money in open source software.” The problem, however, is that there isn’t money in open source software.
Oh, sure, there’s Red Hat. But name a single other example. You can’t, because there isn’t one.
To the extent that “open source companies” strike it rich, they’re not doing it with open source. They’re selling the opposite of open which, it turns out, may be the best open source business model of all.
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