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- The open source community benefits from directly from the full-time engineering staff that exist because of the fee-paying customers.
- The customers benefit from the increased quality of the software, quality of design, and increased traction enabled by the open source community.
- The POSS company benefits by increasing its valuation when it meets the needs of both customers and open source community.
- The model is powerful because the customers, partners, engineers, and open source communities are all self-motivated to behave in ways that are beneficial to themselves and, as a side effect, beneficial to all the others.
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