> but this should be possible for them to do this within a reasonable amount of time That's not the end game of any "open core" company I have ever seen. The

> but this should be possible for them to do this within a reasonable amount of time That's not the end game of any "open core" company I have ever seen. They usually will restrict certain software features only to paying customers. From Wikipedia [0]: > The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software. The open-core model primarily involves offering a "core" or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software. The term was coined by Andrew Lampitt in 2008. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model