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Open Core: The worst of both worlds

Oct 09, 2009, 13:02 (1 Talkback[s])
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"Let me show you by example. SugarCRM is one of the more popular open core software products available. The company offers the Community Edition for free under a GPLv3 license but also offers a Professional and Enterprise edition under a proprietary license. SugarCRM has been around since 2004 but it is already showing many signs of not being sustainable."

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