IDG Contributor Network: You can't make money from open source

During the Open Networking Summit, Peter Levine, general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said that open source needs a business model. Then at OpenStack Summit I bumped into a consultant who shared Levine's views. His exact words were: "Tell me a single company other than Red Hat that makes more than a billion dollars from Linux."This is something I often hear critics of open source: There is only one Red Hat and there isI have thought about addressing this topic for a ve