>Of the two companies we can prove made a profit with Open Source, one didn't use community
> development. Could this mean that community development isn't even a good idea if you're out
> to make money?
Too strong a development community might actually be a threat to some open source business
models.
Posted Dec 22, 2009 11:09 UTC (Tue) by sladen (subscriber, #27402)
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"Threat" has negative connotations; what's actually happening is the optimisation and evolution of a development process—in the long run it is better for the general good.