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Comment by johngossman

2 years ago

The many startups built around OSS projects such as Mongo, Kafka, Spark, and Linux seem to have found a way.

There's a longer list of companies that have been basically out-competed and strip mined by the hyperscalers. But presumably the poster here is referring more to a long tail of small to medium sized projects that are important to the community at large but harder to monetize then these big high gravity projects that you mentioned