Operations may not wind up being all that different in spirit than startups that build open source products. There&#x27;s a free platform and then services, features and tools for sale that serve the needs of professionals. For example, an API probably isn&#x27;t an ideal product for a typical law firm. Something that runs on Windows and iPhones might offer a better value proposition in that market segment. The analogy can be extended, of course until it breaks.<p>I didn&#x27;t use a copyleft software example by intent. Copyleft doesn&#x27;t fit because the law itself is in the public domain [IANAL] and that is why The texts can be put under license by Harvard.<p>Anyway, it looks like an improvement over the current state of affairs. YMMV.