Advertising "open core" software

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 01:03:38 UTC 2010


Hi,

Open core, for those not familiar with the term is the business model of
keeping some key features closed and selling a proprietary product where
the "core" functionality is free and open source.  Two features in the
feature list are such software

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList

Zarafa groupware and IntelliJ IDEA, IDE for Java have a number of
features that is only available in their proprietary product.

http://www.zarafa.com/content/editions
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html

Do we care?  I am concerned about this.

Rahul


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