Red Hat is well known as probably the most successful company built entirely on open-source software. Building a business on top of open source is a hard thing, especially so back in the early days of open source when no one had any real idea how the economics of a product that was free would translate into commercial success.
But succeed it did, and Red Hat has created a huge business built entirely on offering services on top of open-source products.
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