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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by surgical_fire on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:57AM (#41656888)
> Company A spends X% of their revenue on improving the product. Company B spends nothing. Company B will be able to price their product lower, and take Company A's customers. It's not sustainable.

Then don't make an open source product.

What you can't do is try to earn the goodwill that comes with open source, but also expect the profitability of a proprietary product.

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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by Spivak on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:37PM (#41664273)
Don't try to base a company around developing and selling open source is a lesson that folks will keep learning again and again. You have to make money doing something else and if your core competency isn't that something else you'll lose to someone where it is.

If you want to sell software then sell software.

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