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I think it's a smart way to make money with open-source projects. Charge for hosting and premium add-ons. For me Gatsby comes to mind. The framework will always be free but they have a build, CI and hosting platform that makes it easy. And i don't mind paying money for.

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Plus, some occasional free development from PRs.

The number of times where I would be HAPPY to work on a project for free to fix an issue or add a feature I want - I couldn't count.

Instead, it's always reaching out to support and "Thanks for your feature request - it's not currently on our road map, but I've added it to our list."

Open source as a marketing tool

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