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It's not fully FLOSS but double licencing your library GPL and commercial license is another business model, and it seems to be working fine for companies doing

• whitehouse3 8y ago
  Plotly does this with the added option to use their paid, hosted solution. Seems to work for them.
  • gronne 8y ago
    Based on my personal experience: The reason why is probably because of the poorly documented, unstable spaghetti code their public libraries consist of.
    • whitehouse3 8y ago
      Which confirms GP's original idea. There's a fine line between an API that is full-featured and one that can be learned in an afternoon. Plotly is easy to work-through. But if you're aren't comfortable digging through its source code the documentation won't help you. Furthermore, it seems like their support / hosted solution is less for hackers in need of a helping hand and more for completely non-technical users that won't touch JS with a ten foot pole.
      • gronne 8y ago
        Yeah well - looks like we disagree. :) - Plotlys api is def. not full featured - more like a proof of concept (unless you are building generic 2d plots). - If you can’t use the api without reading the sourcecode: the api is not documented. - The 3d libraries only work with the simplest use cases. Its pourous, unstable and inconsistent. Like a poc or alpha. I am a “technical user” and its bc. of projects like Plotly I try to avoid js (pole or not).