Advertising "open core" software

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 06:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

It did bug me a bit about Zarafa. I'd rather prefer to promote
eGroupware, myself...that's what I pushed for in the infrastructure
group discussion on calendaring software.
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