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Good question! Certainly the open source code limits how much you can charge for the product. I think that if there was no open source edition we could sell the
by sytse 10y ago
Good question! Certainly the open source code limits how much you can charge for the product. I think that if there was no open source edition we could sell the Enterprise Edition for more than $39 per user per year. But of course there would be no Enterprise Edition without the open source edition!
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