Hello. I would be curious to hear more of your current thinking on "open core" licensing.
Open core does everything that is needed legally speaking for the data platform and associated tooling that our small firm offers. However, in practice, it seems to leave a bad taste in the mouth for a certain number of individual developers (even if they are not the target market for any of our commercial services) and it confuses some number of larger organizations (who are the target market, but may have varying levels of technical understanding about the open and closed components that their complete solution will entail).
Do you see more understandable alternatives to open core emerging? Is this just the challenge of marketing and selling complex software whatever the licensing model?
Thank you.
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Hello. I would be curious to hear more of your current thinking on "open core" licensing.
Open core does everything that is needed legally speaking for the data platform and associated tooling that our small firm offers. However, in practice, it seems to leave a bad taste in the mouth for a certain number of individual developers (even if they are not the target market for any of our commercial services) and it confuses some number of larger organizations (who are the target market, but may have varying levels of technical understanding about the open and closed components that their complete solution will entail).
Do you see more understandable alternatives to open core emerging? Is this just the challenge of marketing and selling complex software whatever the licensing model?
Thank you.