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Zephyr Prusinski

Hi Joseph! I know commercial open source ventures tend to center a lot on SaaS and web/devops frameworks, but have you seen anything commercially viable or interesting outside of web-developer-targeted open source software, or any movement towards commercial open source hardware?

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Joseph Jacks

YES! Commercial open source hardware is an exciting area.

Here are two companies in the RISC-V ecosystem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V -- that we are thrilled about:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiFive

hex-five.com/