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Shai Almog Software developer with 30 years experience. JavaOne rockstar, author & teacher, OSS hacker. One co-founded an open-source startup 9 years ago. The balance between the commercial interests of potential investors, owners, and the community. Unfortunately, this isn’t something that can be extracted as a “general rule”. Different companies have different business models and different situations. It seems the impact of further open sourcing has no effect on traffic which generally correlates to growth/revenue.