Open Source And Profitability

You Can't Make Money from Open Source

Swapnil Bhartiya | May 6, 2016

During the Open Networking Summit, Peter Levine, general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said that open source needs a business model. Then at OpenStack Summit I bumped into a consultant who shared Levine's views. His exact words were: "Tell me a single company other than Red Hat that makes more than a billion dollars from Linux."
This is something I often hear critics of open source: There is only one Red Hat and there is never going to be another.

Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-firms-grapple-with-how-to-make-open-source-pay-1457031731

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