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Did you think about using dual licensing? GPL + Proprietary for paid users?

• LukeEF 6y ago
  We did think about that, but our economic model is to focus on income for SaaS collaboration through TerminusHub. We are a distributed revision control database - so the model is a bit like git and github (only they piggy backed on an already successful open source project and we have to build both open source and hub!). We really don't like the 'traditional' open source economic model - with a community version and all the good features in a proprietary enterprise edition. The community version is almost necessarily weak and you end up annoying your users. We'd prefer to keep as open as possible and have a commercial SaaS or open core model.
  • jraph 6y ago
    > We'd prefer to keep as open as possible and have a commercial SaaS or open core model Isn't this opposed to this? > We really don't like the 'traditional' open source economic model - with a community version and all the good features in a proprietary enterprise edition This is what I thought open core was, am I wrong? A commercial SaaS model would make a lot of sense for a project that wants to remain completely free software, though. You are the people who know your code best, and it makes sense to trust and pay you to run it reliably.
    • ggleason 6y ago
      We want the database to have 100% of the features and not have to have a proprietary split between the database we offer to enterprise and to our open source community. We want people to build stuff on our database whether they are companies or individuals and we don't want to encumber this with stumbling blocks. We intend to do this by having a SaaS revenue model which doesn't require we hobble anything in the database in order to make money.
      • jraph 6y ago
        Kudos to you, I'm not a huge fan of open source products that have proprietary features neither. I wish you success!