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On “Does Open Source Work as a Long-Term Business Model?”
Open Source is not a business model, it's a development model. A business model is something like selling services, selling proprietary features around the core product, etc. There's a discussion around that in this video (Making money with open source). Link is to the specific slide about business models, 8m in. Generally, an open source development model vastly improves the development process, but limits the impact of some available business models (such as selling the software).