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Open Core considered harmful

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The first sample is free, but you'll find yourself needing more...
Open core is a game on rather than a valid expression of software freedom, because it does not cultivate software freedom for the software user. In an open core business, there is a core package which is open source and which delivers basic functions. That package can be used freely under the terms of an open source licence, and there's no issue involved at this point...
 read more | score:6286 | -Ray, July 5, 2010
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