#known 2016-12-15

2016-12-15 UTC
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axx_ mapkyca: thanks, that's what I was hoping… I fully understand that as a company, known would develop extra bits for paying customers (they should be able to make a living from paying customers), I was just worried that the whole was “open core” crap where as soon as you want to do anything actually useful, you need to add proprietary components.
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axx_ fauxpen source, as some call it :)
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axx_ (to add to my first sentence, they could develop those extra bits under free licenses, but that is sometimes harder to understand for the paying customers)
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mapkyca axx_ well, I know for a certainty there's no kind of bait-and-switch being planned ;) but there's no way to guarantee that the particular "something useful" that you want to specifically do will be done by a FLOSS plugin. The platform is FLOSS, and there are zero plans to make the whole thing proprietary, and even if there were it couldn't be done retrospectively.
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mapkyca tbh I think folk spend too much time stressing about this sort of thing in the FLOSS community - surely the biggest threat to a project's longevity is that nobody can afford to build it? ;)
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