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Ask HN: Are Open Source Projects Products?
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Re: Ask HN: Are Open Source Projects Products?
#12Yes, they are, by definition.
This is the difference between "open source" and "free s/w".
Open source is a process of using public collaboration to develop a for-profit product intended to benefit the product's ownership, while free s/w is the process of user representatives collaboratively developing s/w intended to directly benefit it's users.
Re: Ask HN: Are Open Source Projects Products?
#13OSS projects are products, as they can be used, modified and distributed by anyone.
Also, to my knowledge, more than 75% of SaaS projects are forked from open-source ones.