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So let's play this out: Community user: this is awesome, let me add this bugfix Company: bugfix tweaked/improved & in mainline. Come speak at our conference!

So let's play this out: Community user: this is awesome, let me add this bugfix Company: bugfix tweaked/improved & in mainline. Come speak at our conference! Community user: cool. Now here's this admin tool. Company: uh,no,sorry,please keep that out of the main repos. Community user: but admin is pretty central... When the center of the community actively dissuades core contributions, which is what we see, the alignment isn't working.

agibsonccc 11y ago
Right. I'm talking about for our particular industry. This definitely isn't true of all.
nickpsecurity 11y ago
This is a worry that's mentioned in any article of business models. Do you know if anyone has collected actual data on how often a community version got parity with enterprise edition and significantly burned the sales? It's a good hypothesis but I'm not sure it happens often in practice. Most companies I found that had a premium model still have a premium model. Mine wasn't a large sample, though.