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Open Core: The worst of both worlds

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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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