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> I'm building an open source company

Well, if you want to waste your time, and money...

Monetizing open source is very, very difficult. It can of course be done (I've made a few, a very few, quid out of it) , but it is statistically unlikely that you will do it.

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This has been my thought, I think ideally you start closed source, build your business and then open source things that are commodities to your business but never the core bussiness.

Just because we're writing an extension for it right now, MSFT VSCode is a great example of this. All of their actual magic "intellisense" is locked down but the editor itself is open because that's not where the money is for them it's in the code intelligence.

Lots of people have done statistically unlikely things :) thats where the funs at! High risk high reward

> High risk high reward

Also, high losses.

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