And the way we fund this is primarily through US-based venture capital funding, which demands hockey stick growth in return.

All the focus goes into making hundreds of millions or ideally billions of dollars in profit to pay back their investors.

As a member of a team that's in the middle of doing this, I can say it affects every single decision abou... See more

8 practical ways to make money with open-source projects.

1) Premium code: (Open-Core)

The open core model is a business strategy where you offer most of your code as free and open source.

However, an add-on commercial version is released as proprietary software.

Example: Dragula Pro by Zeno Rocha -($250K in 2.5 years )

2) Open SaaS:

Open SaaS allows u... See more

Refer to Ben Reinhardt on how this stuff gets funding.