Re:When 'open core' projects reject contributions for compet...
by marcosdumay on Sunday March 10, 2024 @11:01AM
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Can you fork it? If so it's open source, if not, it's not.
There's no subjectivity for you to have an opinion differently.
And yes, the authors are free to run their project any way they want. You are free to not interact with them if you don't want, and since they published the code, you are also free to fork it.
Open core is an incredibly hard model to get right. Make your code too free, and you are at the risk of being pushed off the market by some large player that doesn't need to invest on it; make your code too closed and you'll become an asshole and your customers will go away. Often the margin here is negative, and both too free and too close intersect instead of having some space between them.
There's no subjectivity for you to have an opinion differently.
And yes, the authors are free to run their project any way they want. You are free to not interact with them if you don't want, and since they published the code, you are also free to fork it.
Open core is an incredibly hard model to get right. Make your code too free, and you are at the risk of being pushed off the market by some large player that doesn't need to invest on it; make your code too closed and you'll become an asshole and your customers will go away. Often the margin here is negative, and both too free and too close intersect instead of having some space between them.