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Thank you! Will people pay for a license if there's no differentiation? (In HN we read a lot of stories where even donate button is not working well) Also, wi

Thank you! Will people pay for a license if there's no differentiation? (In HN we read a lot of stories where even donate button is not working well) Also, will people pay for a commercial add-on when the product itself is free? (open core model)

zelly 6y ago
> Will people pay for a license if there's no differentiation? That is really a separate issue. If there is no differentiation from its competitors, then it may not be used at all. People aren't generally the customers of dual-licensed software; usually companies that ship proprietary software are the customers. The typical model for dual-licensing is to allow the code to be used in an open source project for free but charge for the code to be used in a proprietary project.