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it also comes down to profit.

I can give 100k to docker and expect to get back 200k. If I give that money to OpenBSD I'm expecting a general "the world may be better" and a loss of 100k.

While a nice thing, this is not what I'd want people managing my money to do.



Who is giving up this 200k?

I think that with the proper service infrastructure on top of their open source development model, OpenBSD could also bring in 200k on a 100k investment. But OpenBSD would have to be pushed and marketed as Docker has been, and the service side organized as a for-profit organization.


Not 200k, but someone is giving up their $15M.




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