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A comment on Ask HN: What is wrong with 1$ subscription license for open source softwares?.

Re:Ask HN: What is wrong with 1$ subscription license for op... by burntrelish1273 on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:40AM (#14652824)
The model of "freemium" OSS of paid and community editions is pretty popular: Zimbra, JBoss, Postgres, MySQL, etc.

Ubuntu is special because there's only one version for community and commercial, which can have paid support, whereas RHEL/CentOS is kind of a hack-around that they might as well make completely free except for the commercial packages (RPMs).

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Re:Ask HN: What is wrong with 1$ subscription license for op... by anarazel on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:11PM (#14655384)
How's Postgres a freemium project? There are commercial forks, but they're not done by the people running the .org project, and they're not particularly popular in comparison.
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Re:Ask HN: What is wrong with 1$ subscription license for op... by burntrelish1273 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @08:22PM (#14685039)
Every FOSS project is freemium when vendors offer support.

Furthermore, your assumption that populist obscurity is some how a negative is FUD and ignorant of Postgres' historical obscurity until recent years.

EDB is the largest commercial vendor with EDB Postgres Plus being a compatible, cheaper Oracle DBMS replacement.

Furthermore, they contribute upstream all the time.

https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/new-postgresql-tools-are-l...

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