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Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by cstejerean on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:05PM (#18904897)
Well this is like an inverse for that strategy. If your core product is OSS you aren’t commoditizing its complements, but rather trying to build and charge for those complements (such as hosting or management services, consulting, etc) because you can’t charge for the product itself.
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Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by scarface74 on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:37PM (#18908198)
For a profit seeking corporation, your core product is the product that makes you money.

Roku sells hardware, but the CEO has said in no uncertain terms that their core product is aggregating user data to sell to advertisers. That they don’t consider themselves a hardware company.

IBM was also big into open source to sell mainframes and services.

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