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Community edition and paid Enterprise plug-ins with support is a standard pattern in the OSS market. Not quite bait & switch as you put it, and frankly polishi

by eecc 5y ago

Community edition and paid Enterprise plug-ins with support is a standard pattern in the OSS market. Not quite bait & switch as you put it, and frankly polishing and idiot proofing tools for production workloads is expensive, and requires competent professionals that definitely need to feed themselves and their family.

treis 5y ago
Just because everyone does it doesn't mean that it isn't wrong and illegal.
- manigandham 5y ago
  That's an extreme claim. How is offering community and enterprise editions potentially wrong or illegal?
  - treis 5y ago
    It's usually a full open source solution and then the enterprise edition gets introduced later to make money. In other words, it's dumping to gain market share and then later trying to use the cornered market to extract profit.
    - manigandham 5y ago
      There is absolutely nothing wrong or illegal with companies offering new additional products. You're not cornered when you can freely choose to buy the enterprise product depending on whether you get any value from it or stick with the open-source version which remains available and has plenty of competition (like Rancher). In fact that entire issue with Docker is that they have too little value to charge for and too much competition to defend against, the exact opposite of dumping to clear out the market.
      - eecc 5y ago
        Indeed. I’ve worked with several “enterprises” and often the OSS option was discarded for lack of support for certain enterprise use-case or integration with other commercial products; or for lack of professional support for production issues and SLAs. Obviously this stuff costs effort and time, you can’t expect that to be available for free. It’s also a great opportunity to commercially exploit your knowledge and taste and make a living out of it; rather than curse “the powers that be” on a daily basis, while struggling with closed software whose only purpose has always been milking as much profit possible

by eecc 5y ago

treis 5y ago

Just because everyone does it doesn't mean that it isn't wrong and illegal.

manigandham 5y ago
That's an extreme claim. How is offering community and enterprise editions potentially wrong or illegal?
- treis 5y ago
  It's usually a full open source solution and then the enterprise edition gets introduced later to make money. In other words, it's dumping to gain market share and then later trying to use the cornered market to extract profit.
  - manigandham 5y ago
    There is absolutely nothing wrong or illegal with companies offering new additional products. You're not cornered when you can freely choose to buy the enterprise product depending on whether you get any value from it or stick with the open-source version which remains available and has plenty of competition (like Rancher). In fact that entire issue with Docker is that they have too little value to charge for and too much competition to defend against, the exact opposite of dumping to clear out the market.
    - eecc 5y ago
      Indeed. I’ve worked with several “enterprises” and often the OSS option was discarded for lack of support for certain enterprise use-case or integration with other commercial products; or for lack of professional support for production issues and SLAs. Obviously this stuff costs effort and time, you can’t expect that to be available for free. It’s also a great opportunity to commercially exploit your knowledge and taste and make a living out of it; rather than curse “the powers that be” on a daily basis, while struggling with closed software whose only purpose has always been milking as much profit possible