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Twilio OpenVBX and the 3rd Open Source Business Model
The document discusses two classes of APIs: those that have grown from products and those that are the product themselves. It notes that while cloud APIs aim to serve both end users and developers, there is often a gap between them that companies try to bridge either through developing companion products or by exposing higher-level capabilities in the APIs. The document presents Twilio's approach of combining open source software like OpenVBX with cloud APIs and services like their telephony offerings as a business model that can increase the commercial potential for open source projects.
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