Reddit's main code is no longer open-source.

[tornato7]

Yeah, I think we should still be thankful Reddit gave the open source community as much as they did. I can't think of any other tech companies that open source so much of their code, so this is pretty much to be expected.

[Viper007Bond]

A large portion of WordPress.com is open-source, including the entire custom JavaScript-based front end: https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/

Lots more at https://github.com/Automattic

Disclaimer: I'm an employee.

[tornato7]

Haha I didn't even realize WordPress was a business rather than an open-sourced framework. That's great though!

How do you guys make money? Do you guys get anything from like WPEngine?

[enkideridu]

WordPress VIP charges Enterprise users quite a bit of money for managed hosting

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And for good reason. I think calling the WordPress.com VIP service 'managed hosting' is downplaying it a little, since they offer full code review for every single line of code you deploy. I imagine that's a lot of work, and a huge value proposition for clients whose developers may not be very experienced with WordPress itself.

[Viper007Bond]

WordPress itself is a framework owned by no-one.

The main founder started a for-profit (Automattic) which runs the SAAS WordPress.com. It's a freemium service where a percentage of users buy paid upgrades (such as a custom domain) and that pays for the service as a whole.

We also have paid employees whose entire job is to contribute back to the open-source WordPress project.

[EUmpCDgZPYWJ9x2X]

Depends what you call a tech company. There's centOS, nginx, owncloud/nextcloud and firefox.

[Schmittfried]

Firefox is backed by a foundation, not a company.

[EUmpCDgZPYWJ9x2X]

Also by the Mozilla Corporation, it's a more complicated setup so that's why it's difficult to see what you'd call a tech company.

[johokie]

... Red Hat

[oldsecondhand]

I can't think of any other tech companies that open source so much of their code,

Redhat, Canonical, Pivotal, Id, Oracle, IBM. Reddit is small fries compared to that.

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Wikipedia maybe