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Seems like a pretty perverse incentive to have the project largely funded by a commercial company offering a repackaging of the open source product with some ad
by avar 10y ago
Seems like a pretty perverse incentive to have the project largely funded by a commercial company offering a repackaging of the open source product with some added features that Wine couldn't add themselves least they compete with the benefactor directly and lose their funding.
- teddyh 10y agoThis phenomenon is not new, but it has become common enough to get a name: “Open Core”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_core
- chias 10y agoIt works pretty well for Chromium / Google Chrome, Fedora / Red Hat, Debian / Canonical, etc. Even the various Android skins (whatever you think of them) probably fall under this description.