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Opinion
Waters: Red Hat benefited from a rare Unix-to-Linux platform shift
“Red Hat kinda got lucky and find a commoditizing change, which was Unix to Linux. That's an rare event to have a major, you know, chip system re platforming see change.”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:15 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
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Levine: Pure open-source support business models are not viable beyond Red Hat
“The whole support model really not being very viable outside of what Red Hat has done.”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:15 a16z Podcast | Pricing Free
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Levine: The Red Hat Open-Source Support Model Has Only Worked Once
“And that model has worked, in my opinion, exactly one time. That's worked for Red Hat and not so great for everyone else.”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:29 a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
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Levine: Red Hat is the only standalone open-source success story
“There haven't been standalone franchises other than Red Hat that have really been able to, quote unquote, monetize open source.”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:28 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
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