[ Thanks to Jim
Lynch for this link. ]
“I’ve been taking some shots at open core lately,
because I’ve come to the realization there are inherent flaws in
this business model as it relates to open source.“I have some concerns about how these companies will handle open
source contributions to the free “core” software if the
contribution gets too close to the functionality offered in the
commercial add-ons. Under open source, traditionally all
contributions should be accepted (or not) based on technical merit
or the scope of the software.“Technical merit is a fairly easy criteria to implement: a
submitted piece of code either works well, or it doesn’t. If it
breaks something, or is grossly inefficient, it doesn’t
belong.”