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+ Fair Source provides many of the same benefits for companies as Open Source, by helping to foster an engaged developer community around your software products.
+ In “The sodSingle-Vendor Commercial Open Source Business Model,, Professor Dirk Riehle of the University of Erlangen has identified the following benefits of such a community, by business function:
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The basic steps to adopt Fair Source are to plan for community engagement, to audit and publish your source code, and to announce that you are now Fair Source. For more details read our guide, The Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Business Model.