I wonder: Are there well-known, profitable Open Source companies? I’m not talking about billion dollar acquisitions, but operating profits.
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@markusvoelter What @stilkov is probably looking for is a business model where an OSS product generates almost all revenue.
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@ewolff @markusvoelter If itemis made the majority of its business from Xtext and closely related services, that would count for me
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@stilkov @ewolff there is a lot of revenue generated directly or indirectly from the OSS.
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@markusvoelter @ewolff Probably just a matter of percentages then. My guess is a company like EclipseSource qualifies, too.

Apr 15, 2014 · 5:04 PM UTC

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@stilkov @markusvoelter @ewolff fuaesource was bwfore acquisition. So was jboss even though not on big margins