For an open core company, setting the boundary between free and paid is a crucial decision. You need to make money but you also need to maintain open source credibility. (Picture from Wikipedia.) That ...

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Why open core software is bad for the FOSS movement. Nothing is inherently anti-business about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). In fact, a number of different business models are built on top of ...

In one of our first ZDnet posts a couple years back, we proffered the question of whether open source was becoming the new default business model for enterprise software. It's only been a couple years ...