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A comment on Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business source code?.

Re:Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business s... by Hates_ on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:54AM (#8965772)
The example that springs to mind is Spree (https://spreecommerce.com/). Spree itself is open source, but Spree Commerce make their money from support, implementation and premium offerings.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business s... by tmikaeld on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:53AM (#8966412)
The issue with Spree is that they rely on Wombat for connectivity to other systems and Wombat is NOT open source, it's a hosted SAAS solution. So by choosing Spree, you are inherently locked into using Wombat as well.
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