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1. TekMol+Xg[view] [source] 2025-12-02 19:13:36
>>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?
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2. taylor+Ph[view] [source] 2025-12-02 19:17:42
>>TekMol+Xg
The post mentions why - Bun eventually wanted to provide some sort of cloud-hosting saas product.
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3. knowit+GG[view] [source] 2025-12-02 21:09:59
>>taylor+Ph
Except Amazon would beat them to it
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