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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by donatj on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:54PM (#19436405)
"Unfortunately most of the wealth created by OSS is being reaped by the large cloud vendors"

I think you're forgetting the end users of the applications running on the open source regardless of cloud provider. The value they are reaping is near limitless.

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by davidjnelson on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:04PM (#19436524)
Also those companies building those applications with open source for end users are reaping near limitless value.
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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by donatj on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:42PM (#19438721)
And thus society is reaping near limitless value.
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