Could it be that, rather than the death of a particular variety of open source ("Open Core"), that the author has in fact described yet another open source busi

Could it be that, rather than the death of a particular variety of open source ("Open Core"), that the author has in fact described yet another open source business model? One that specifically extends Open Core? Consider: - Company releases the Secret Sauce as open source under a highly permissive (non-reciprocal) license - Secret Sauce coalesces a large, engaged community around it - Company pays the bills with support, consulting, and other complementary products/services as it bootstraps itself - Company releases v2 under a traditional non-open license Everyone profits from this arrangement, potentially. Small users get good, free software to bootstrap projects. Big companies build stuff on top. And in the end, Company takes a portion of the open source audience with it into v2. Finding that audience and getting them to pay attention is not easy at all. Think of Open Core as the car that gets you there, to borrow a quote from "The Comeback."