Open Source monetization options 1. Support (Red Hat) 2. Customization/ professional services 3. Documentation (JBoss in the olden days and most recently with jBPM) 4. Optimization tools

FOSS also helps in sourcing an international labor pool to lower product development costs.

For consumers, mature FOSS provides alternatives to the traditional per CPU cost model. As product spaces and FOSS alternatives mature, the cost models of proprietary software makes little sense.