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What do you think better way for opensource startups if it is not open core model?
by nerdyadventurer 5y ago
What do you think better way for opensource startups if it is not open core model?
- brunoqc 5y agoWhen they offer you to pay for support and hosting it for you.
- nerdyadventurer 5y agoIs these approaches sustainable?
- judge2020 5y agoCalling it open core / open source isn’t a requirement, and often it looks like it’s only done to attract engineers that want to work on OSS and as a marketing funnel for PMs that don’t expect the software to have a paid tier. In my opinion, the differentiator is how viable the ‘open core’ product itself is by itself; I can’t speak for the thread’s product, but Redis is an example of the good side of this coin: core functionality, even that related to security and user permissions isn’t gated to their paid plugin system, while Elastic before 6.0 (IIRC) was pretty bad as application authentication wasn’t included in the open source edition. Also, Elastic and Mongo’s current SSPL license is just a workaround for not wanting to associate their respective codebases with the string ‘AGPL’ while still preventing cloud customers from running hosted versions, all in an effort to hopefully not turn away good talent/good customers that want to use “open source” software.