Just because it's A common motivation and strategy, doesn't mean it's THEIR motivation and strategy.
A more likely strategy/motivation is that the product is you. AKA: farming the users.
Create a desirable pasture, and the animals farm themselves.
A more likely strategy/motivation is that the product is you. AKA: farming the users.
Create a desirable pasture, and the animals farm themselves.
Get a bunch of Open Source Developers to do your marketing at their "real jobs" so they can sell the Enterprise Version.
Since GitHub is a private company it is Unknown (at least I can not find the info) if they are profitable or not, or what their revenue numbers even are so it is unclear if that is a successful plan or not.
GitHub could very well run into the same problems as SoundCloud.