#8x8.com, a 300M$/year revenue company, purchased #Jitsi in October 2018: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8x8

What is their business model in your opinion?

Notice:
* Jitsi is licenced #Apache (not #GPL), hence it can turn proprietary and be killed any time: github.com/jitsi
* Jitsi uses STUN servers of #Google by default: mastodon.social/@FuckOffGoogle

Thanks @ajz

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There's a huge market for enterprise solutions like this. By keeping an open-source version you get the benefit of people testing it early, reporting bugs and submitting improvements. By having the enterprise part the open-source benefits by having paid and dedicated core development team. Quite frequent and mutually beneficial symbiosis, IMHO.

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