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Re:The Life and Death of Open Source Companies by nojvek on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @09:42AM (#38772153)
There’s a 5th one. While not fully open source companies, they have a whole bundle of open source libraries and packages that don’t threaten their core business.

Meta does OS well for their scale. React, Llama, PyTorch come to mind.

For MS: Typescript, vscode, .net come to mind.

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Re:The Life and Death of Open Source Companies by jraph on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @09:46AM (#38772182)
> Llama

This is not open source. (but this does not take out the essence of your comment)

The huge caveat with this is that we often get nice open source developer tools out of these companies, but never good software targeted to end users. So others still need to work to provide open source software to actual users.

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