they can make money the same way adobe makes money
flex is currently free, soon to be open source I believe, they make money by selling you the IDE and tools to make development easier
flex is currently free, soon to be open source I believe, they make money by selling you the IDE and tools to make development easier
I can't think of any tools, short of some kind of WYSIWYG tool, which I don't think they have the resources to create.
They already tried consulting, using their product with all of their clients. That has failed.
I think they're banking on support, but haven't all successful support-backed open source companies started out as projects first, and THEN were turned into companies? Is it feasible to put the cart before the horse when trying to make money from an open source framework? (Adobe, Microsoft, et al can do this because they have massive amounts of money- far more than 4.1M)
I'm not trying to bash them or be antagonistic- I honestly want to know how something like this can make money.