What this usually means is that the organization(s) pays for support, has the company like Collabora write all the code, and in the end they just take what they want and either re-implement it in a different way or actually have a whole different product than the "public" one. One or two organizations provide the majority of support (85%+).
I don't think Collabora is going to be alone in their struggles with this type of business model.įrom what I can see / understand is that there a few large corporations / govts whatever you like that provide financial support in the form of the Pareto distribution.
This isn't because we have a "free" or "libre" fetish, it's more that the open source technologies tend to plug and play better with others, have open standards for file formats etc., and we can have clients and collaborators work on any OS they want.
I'm an engineer (not software, not a developer, not in "tech") and we have been switching a lot of our workflows to open source software and the like.
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