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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements
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This is a great perspective to voice. Sometimes those of us who are staunch FOSS advocates can lose sight of the big picture. If one's goal is to be, for example, an eCommerce software vendor, it probably doesn't make sense to build and maintain your own DB stack or Internet infrastructure even though it is technically feasible. The money and resources needed to maintain that stuff will take away from the ability to improve and maintain the eConmerce application.
One revenue source for FOSS projects is providing enterprise support, allowing you to outsource support.
And that's been a very successful one. Not every component has such a model, however.