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Okay, I would love that but let me see if I can play devils advocate and get productive responses that work in the capitalistic world we are stuck in.

Why would a company pay a team millions of dollars annually to give it away for free. That destines their entire company for failure in their mind. They get no kick backs other than a thank you note for doing so... Which means nothing to their bottom line but down.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

i think you misunderstood it.

take a look at libreoffice, proxmox, pfsense, flexiwan, canonical, redhat if you want an example of this business model actually working, at different stages of success.

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