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>>ryanvo+(OP)
What is the business model behind open source projects like bun? How can a company "aquire" it and why does it do that?

In the article they write about the early days

    We raised a $7 million seed round

Why do investors invest into people who build something that they give away for free?

>>TekMol+Xg
The post mentions why - Bun eventually wanted to provide some sort of cloud-hosting saas product.

>>taylor+Ph
Everyone could offer a cloud-hosted saas product that involves bun, right?

Why invest into a company that has the additional burden of developing bun, why not in a company that does only the hosting?

>>TekMol+Pi
Hosting is a commodity. Runtimes are too. In this case, the strategy is to make a better runtime, attract developers, and eventually give them a super easy way to run their project in the cloud. Eg: bun deploy, which is a reserved no op command. I really like Buns DX.