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Re:Why Founders Fail To Market Their Products by Mathnerd314 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:42AM (#13706305)
It works better with the Red Hat model: "Here's some flawed buggy software I wrote. Pay me and I'll make it work for your use case."

There's a small incentive to write deliberately obscured code, but I think it gets outweighed by maintainability concerns.

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Re:Why Founders Fail To Market Their Products by hinkley on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:02AM (#13712188)
And the Apache Model: Write awful, placeholder documentation, then get an O'Reilly book deal to finally explain yourself and your code.
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Re:Why Founders Fail To Market Their Products by DiabloD3 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:11PM (#13708753)
Seems to be better known as the Sun/Oracle model.
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