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Originally Posted by JoshJ  Red Hat. MySQL. These are rather notable examples.
In these examples, you pay for support.
Another business model can be found by looking historically; rms programmed custom stuff for emacs for $250 an hour. |
I don't object to paying for software. I occasionally buy software, even for Linux. I wish there were a "Quicken for Linux" and I would pay for it.
BTW if it turns out that there is any Microsoft intellectual property in the Linux kernel, I would suspect that Microsoft had hired someone to work as a Linux kernel developer and put it there. Microsoft is dirty enough, in my opinion, to do it.