Working at an open core company with a little over a year of existence. I think the open core model works, and is great marketing strategy. Customers at the e

Working at an open core company with a little over a year of existence. I think the open core model works, and is great marketing strategy. Customers at the end of the day are willing to pay for polished finished products, but giving them an exit path-way should you fail and burn all your VC money, gives some ease vs going for a fully closed-source commercial product, even if some parts of the product aren't available (or only under enterprise edition) YMMV, but I think it's a good think for open source to have found an hybrid model between free vs paid software dichotomy