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When many people first hear about businesses that make their living selling open source software, their first question is usually something like “How can you sell something that’s available for free?” That complicated answer is addressed in this chapter.

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    http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/tiemans.html

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    http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/deals-law-of-whale-hunt.html

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    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00741.x

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    https://www.linuxfoundation.org/2017-linux-kernel-report-landing-page/

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    http://agilemanifesto.org /

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    https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/05/16/devops-name/ Debois actually advocates for capitalizing the term as Devops rather than DevOps.

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    http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/03/ops-devops-and-noops-at-netflix.html

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    https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operators.html

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    https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/what-is-the-point-of-DevOps

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    https://opensource.com/article/18/4/devops-compatible-part-time-community-teams

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    http://www.tomwujec.com/design-projects/marshmallow-challenge/

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    https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2017/1/target-cio-explains-how-devops-took-root-inside-retail-giant

  13. 13.

    https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/culture-change

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Haff, G. (2018). Business Models . In: How Open Source Ate Software. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3894-3_5

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