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dman on March 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Distro for Elasticsearch

The cloud that creates an Itunes like solution for OSS, creating a business model for OSS and earning the respect of developers will make bank like Apple did. Am hoping for one of the cloud players to adopt this strategy.

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vajrabum on March 12, 2019 [–]

You mean like yum install or apt get? If so, then yes but your prediction is a little late

dman on March 12, 2019 | [–]

I mean something where the Apache authors get paid based on Apache usage by cloud customers (as an example).

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