Among the thousands of open-source projects, the ones championed as a successful business make a tiny proportion i.e. the exception not the norm.
Meanwhile the SaaS business model continues to eat the software market. A model that gives users less control than the desktop software model.
Open-source software has been critical to the success of the SaaS model. You could argue SaaS is the true success of the 'open-source business model'. Just not the way open-source advocates expected it to be.
Among the thousands of open-source projects, the ones championed as a successful business make a tiny proportion i.e. the exception not the norm.
Meanwhile the SaaS business model continues to eat the software market. A model that gives users less control than the desktop software model.
Open-source software has been critical to the success of the SaaS model. You could argue SaaS is the true success of the 'open-source business model'. Just not the way open-source advocates expected it to be.