Elastic, like Redis and MongoDB before it, decided that Open Core isn't enough, but that they need to go against the Open Source Initiative (a grassroots organi

Elastic, like Redis and MongoDB before it, decided that Open Core isn't enough, but that they need to go against the Open Source Initiative (a grassroots organization that represents the Open Source movement very well, and runs https://opensource.org/ https://opensource.org/ which contains the open source definition) and confuse users by misusing the well understood, but non-trademarked term "open source". This phrase in the post from the article: "When others closed down, we opened up." ...links to another article called Doubling Down on Open [1] where they say introduce their source available strategy and in some places call it open source (with and without capital letters) and in other places differentiate between it and open source. Please don't call things Open Source that don't fit the Open Source Definition. You have a right to do so since it's not trademarked, and I'll defend that right, but it adds confusion (the D part of FUD). And while the OSI doesn't have a trademark to Open Source (perhaps rightfully so since it's a generic term, though more generic terms like Apple have been trademarked), they do own opensource.org. [1]: https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open