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Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by SkipperCat »

josephcsible wrote: post #98
SkipperCat wrote: post #97

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I'd argue that open core products are what keeps open source alive. Without the ability to monetize the enterprise features, there'd be no justification for products like InfluxDB or others to exist.

But there are a bunch of companies with open source projects that aren't open core, like Red Hat and Grafana.

I thought Grafana was open-core. They're OSS product is in Github - https://github.com/grafana/grafana and they also offer their enterprise version which requires a paid license. RH is pretty much the same.

Maybe my definition of open-core is different than yours.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by josephcsible »

SkipperCat wrote: post #101
josephcsible wrote: post #98

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But there are a bunch of companies with open source projects that aren't open core, like Red Hat and Grafana.

I thought Grafana was open-core. They're OSS product is in Github - https://github.com/grafana/grafana and they also offer their enterprise version which requires a paid license. RH is pretty much the same. Maybe my definition of open-core is different than yours.

You're right, I didn't realize they did that, and I do consider them open core now that I know. I think Red Hat is still a solid example though.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by Nursie »

augusto-moura wrote: post #40
judge2020 wrote: post #17

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My particular gripe with BAT is noted here[0] and AFAIK nothing has changed; you still have to use their KYC-compliant platform to ever exchange BAT for real-world money, as they'd much rather you re-donate the BAT to websites via brave's reward system instead of ever exchanging for USD. Other problems that they'd had: - were inserting referral tokens into the URL when visiting popular websites, so presumably brave w…

You can still donate your BATs to institutions and websites (or should I say "pay for not having ads", at least this is what is being marketed for). I mostly contribute to wikipedia, as it is always in need of new donations and I like the idea of not having trackers/ads on it. Edit: better wording

Does Wikipedia still accept BAT?

Just interested, as they announced they were discontinuing cryptocurrency donations in general a short while ago.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by hjvalente »

remram wrote: post #84
fmajid wrote: post #82

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Same with Netdata (DataDog alternative) where only the agent seems to be open-sourced (so is DataDog’s BTW). Seems like a bait-and-switch.

You are wrong. Netdata does have a paid hosted service, but you can self-host the whole thing.

Netdata doesn't have any paid service at the moment, event the Cloud service is free.

There are plans in the future for some paid plan but it won't remove features, it is more on having longer retention on metadata, role based access, support, etc.

You can find more details here https://www.netdata.cloud/pricing/

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by V-2 »

V-2 wrote: post #92
HKH2 wrote: post #73

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'office' and 'docs' both have relevant matches.

True, because their descriptions literally contain the words "Office" and "Docs". But one of the alleged alternatives for Docs is Athens Research, which is totally unrelated; there's just a link to its "docs" in the description. These are not the docs you are looking for. And again, "Excel" or "PowerPoint" return zero results. Same goes for "Photoshop". "Windows" returns, among others (also completely unrelated): "Br…

I don't want to sound mean, but it really looks like no effort has gone into matching the open source projects with their proprietary equivalents (that they're suggested to replace). And that makes its name essentially misleading. Given the above, the website doesn't appear to be much more than a glorified data dump of open-source projects in general, possibly trying to exploit the "I see open source, I upvote" knee-jerk reaction.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by HKH2 »

V-2 wrote: post #105
V-2 wrote: post #92

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True, because their descriptions literally contain the words "Office" and "Docs". But one of the alleged alternatives for Docs is Athens Research, which is totally unrelated; there's just a link to its "docs" in the description. These are not the docs you are looking for. And again, "Excel" or "PowerPoint" return zero results. Same goes for "Photoshop". "Windows" returns, among others (also completely unrelated): "Br…

I don't want to sound mean, but it really looks like no effort has gone into matching the open source projects with their proprietary equivalents (that they're suggested to replace). And that makes its name essentially misleading. Given the above, the website doesn't appear to be much more than a glorified data dump of open-source projects in general, possibly trying to exploit the "I see open source, I upvote" knee-…

Yeah it does seem a bit rushed.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by versub »

remram wrote: post #94
fmajid wrote: post #93

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Including the cloud component? I can understand a freemium model, but an agent without the analytics service is “free” as in “free puppy”.

If by "cloud component" you mean the server that receives and stores metrics and serves the dashboard, then yes. If you mean the paid registry thing that they sell, which allows you to keep track of your installations of Netdata on multiple servers, then no.

There is no central storage of data, data are stored on each monitored system in a database called dbengine, that's all. Cool, right? They do have a data privacy page: https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/cloud/data-privacy

There is nothing paid, everything is free, both the agent and the cloud app. Do whatever you like with it. There is a pricing policy that will follow sometime in the future but everything that is free today seems that will remain free forever.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by shu7 »

fmajid wrote: post #93
remram wrote: post #84

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You are wrong. Netdata does have a paid hosted service, but you can self-host the whole thing.

Including the cloud component? I can understand a freemium model, but an agent without the analytics service is “free” as in “free puppy”.

As far as I'm aware it is actually free for both agent and cloud. What do they have now is more than enough to understand the root of the issue.

It is ok to pay in the future for SSO.

My concern is not money at that moment, but the foot print on production system as data will be stored and queried next to prod with recently introduced anomaly advisor on top.

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