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Re:The Incompatibility of Open Core and Profit by pxc on Sunday March 05, 2023 @02:44AM (#35027699)
> Open core is the only way to really monetize open-source software.

Red Hat has built a business on free software without resorting to open core. Why can't anyone else (according to you)?

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Re:The Incompatibility of Open Core and Profit by mathstuf on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:31AM (#35042978)
Kitware has as well. The vast majority of the work done is open. There are, however, customer-specific builds for some things, but typically only "special sauce" stuff is specific to those builds and is much closer to "customer purchased development of a specific plugin" than anything like open core.

FD: Kitware employee

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