The Linux Foundation, in cooperation with a couple of other groups, has announced the publication on the intersection of businesses and commercial open-source software (deemed "COSS"). Everything, it seems, is great, and COSS companies make a lot of money for their investors.

Even more encouraging, COSS project communities continue along healthy growth paths after the company receives venture funding. In essence, highly valued COSS companies tend to cultivate more vibrant, diverse, and integral open source ecosystems, reinforcing the idea that business value and community value are tightly coupled in successful COSS models.