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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
I mean if you're getting X number of users per day and you don't need to pay for bandwidth or anything, there's gotta be SOME way to monetize down the line.

If your userbase or the current CEO likes it or not.

>>Chrisb+wh
Ads. Have you seen the dotenv JavaScript package?

>>koakum+Nn
And don't forget when Caddy was putting ads in your servers via a `Caddy-Sponsors` header.

(It was reverted after the situation gained visibility, as is tradition.)