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The shift to open core was ten years ago. Open core failed and is being replaced with pseudo open source.
by wmf 3y ago
The shift to open core was ten years ago. Open core failed and is being replaced with pseudo open source.
- verdverm 3y agoOpen core only became a word people said 10 years ago, it's on the rise as a business model from what I can tell. Do you have suggestions for alternative funding/support models? What is open core being replaced by from your perspective?
- wmf 3y agoOpen core is being replaced by "selling exceptions" to AGPL/SSPL/BUSL/FSL. See MongoDB, Elastic, Hashicorp, Redis, etc. Personally I prefer the Adam Jacob trademark business model but it's not that proven and it can't be retrofitted.
- pininja 3y agohttps://medium.com/@adamhjk/introducing-the-community-compact-431c61ab978f https://medium.com/@adamhjk/introducing-the-community-compac... for folks wondering what Adam’s buisness model is about
- verdverm 3y agoOP, OpenSearch, OpenTofu all seem to indicate the jury is still out on this one. I still see many smaller projects using open core. Three I started using recently ( llama-index, langfuse, qdrant ) are in this category. There is certainly a difference between AGPL and BUSL style licenses. One of the new projects I'm using as some of their code with a BUSL style, but still open core primarily