When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
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Re: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
#2Situations like this one make a company show whether they really are open source or only do so for marketability and to artificially appear more trustworthy. And sadly too often it comes out that it’s the latter
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#4This is expected but still disappointing.
Re: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
#5Situations like this one make a company show whether they really are open source or only do so for marketability and to artificially appear more trustworthy. And sadly too often it comes out that it’s the latter
What's worse is it can change at the whims of executives.
You can invest time and effort into improving an open core product because the leadership is very open and collaborative, then the CTO changes or a bad quarter comes around and OOPS they're done playing with the community now
Re: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
#6Ah, the SSO tax. We only care about security if you pay us, even if you implement it yourself.
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#7One of the many reasons why I think “open core” is not so hot and users should choose to avoid them and prefer OSI-conformant open source licenses that give them options when the company does lame stuff like this-fork and continue on.
Re: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
#8Just saw this on the same day in HN.
Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653718 https://www.usebruno.com/
Good timing to find alternatives.
Re: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
#9Which relevant open source projects with a SaaS feel don't suffer from this? I.e. they are not open core and subject to some startup's agenda and risks.
From the top of my mind, I remember Apache Airflow, which has a lot of open core competition right now.
Re: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
#10What a sad page that merge request is.
I feel bad for the developer who waited 4 months and got that as a response. :|