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Open Core Is Bad For Your Software Freedom
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| When I spoke at the Transfer Summit in
| Oxford last week, I invited the delegates
| to join me in reforming the Open Source
| Initiative (OSI). I repeated the
| explanation I made here, that OSI needs to
| be rebuilt in the light of a re-projection
| of software freedom for a new decade. In
| articulating the challenges facing open
| source after ten years of success, I
| asserted - as I usually do - that "open
| core" is one of the big challenges facing
| open source. This surprised some delegates.
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| Last week MÃrten Mickos, the former CEO of
| MySQL and new CEO of cloud technology
| company Eucalyptus, indicated in an
| interview that he considers open core to be
| the best model for a new business
| exploiting open source software. He said
|
| "We deliver a fully functional cloud
| with Eucalyptus software. You can
| download it on a GPL v3 license. But,
| additionally, we provide enterprise
| features only if you pay for them ...
| it's open core,"
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3047&blogid=41
The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly
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| On that first point, I would argue that
| tons of companies are, actually, billion
| dollar open source companies: Google, IBM,
| Facebook and many others, for example, all
| rely heavily on open source software and
| are valued at well over a billion dollars.
| It's unlikely that any of the three would
| be anywhere near what they are today
| without open source software. It's just
| that all of these companies were smart
| enough not to be in the bad business of
| selling an infinite good. Instead, they all
| looked for ways to use an infinite good --
| for free -- to make something scarce
| massively more valuable. With Google it was
| user's attention and all of the information
| out on the web. With IBM it was services to
| support enterprise technology. Even Redhat,
| the company that kicked off this
| discussion, really makes its money from
| services and expertise.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100626/0032429967.shtml
Recent:
Open core is not open source
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| So let me try to make one thing clear: Open
| core may be a good business model, but open
| core is not open source!
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http://openlife.cc/blogs/2010/june/open-core-not-open-source
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