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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by londons_explore on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:57PM (#21819876)
I think you'll find all you need to do is compile with `BUILD_TYPE_NAME=enterprise make`, and suddenly all features appear. Whats peoples moral position on opensourcing the features but not including them in pre-built images unless you pay?
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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by robbya on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:44PM (#21820700)
Moral? I'm not seeing one.

I think it's a clever way to support free and open source projects. Free edition is for everyone, trials, demos, etc. Paid enterprise version is for companies that are happy to pay to get some extra value. Build it yourself enterprise version is for people who don't want to pay, people that get less value from the product than the price, hobbyists, etc.

Caddy (a web server) used to do something similar.

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