Pick two: 1. Valuable product maintained by professionals 2. Is free 3. Will be around for a long time - craigyk
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also Discourse is doing fine and is profitable without needing to beg for another VC round
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Discourse is an interesting case for me as it's largely VC-free but still largely owned.
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a big part of it may be having a business model that doesn't directly compete with the OSS?
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the target consumer is, for the most part, not particularly tech savvy and doesn't overlap with devs
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but the product is still very useful for devs and justifies contribution for them. Pretty good combo.
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#Emacs turned 40. How many non-free projects are that old? -
Great point. Think it's very fair to argue that commercial angle actually reduces longevity at far end.
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