The Caddy project is fighting to show it can work. We are having moderate success.
I just gave a talk about this a couple weeks ago at an internal company event and will be doing so again at GoWest in a few weeks. The premise is that open source licenses are what they are: they grant freedom, but not other things that companies would pay money for. Proprietary licenses do offer what companies need, but at the cost of freedom.
I believe there is a third model that works in the middle without compromising freedom or reliability. By staying open source and filling the gap of what companies need through sponsorships, I think this may work for some.
I'm currently redesigning the Caddy website to emphasize this and hope it will work!
I just gave a talk about this a couple weeks ago at an internal company event and will be doing so again at GoWest in a few weeks. The premise is that open source licenses are what they are: they grant freedom, but not other things that companies would pay money for. Proprietary licenses do offer what companies need, but at the cost of freedom.
I believe there is a third model that works in the middle without compromising freedom or reliability. By staying open source and filling the gap of what companies need through sponsorships, I think this may work for some.
I'm currently redesigning the Caddy website to emphasize this and hope it will work!