The Five Open Source Business Models

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Open source has become standard in Silicon Valley, with nearly every software startup planning to release at least some code. So far, they've found five main business models:

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28 weeks 5 days 23 hours 41 min ago

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Nice summary

However, there is one model missing, company's giving away source code in order to generate good will. Any entrepreneur knows the incalculable value of good will.

I see this model used to increase adoption of common libraries in order to have the potential of selling more specialized libraries (JIDE Software); or, to increase awareness of other products and services (IBM). Open source software is almost used as part of a PR/Marketing strategy.