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Free Software Foundation Daemonised for Resisting Non-Free(dom) Software

http://boycottnovell.com

Open Core proponent compares the FSF to religion as means of daemonisation and Jason Perlow does this by showing a humourous photo from Linus Torvalds, then throwing in another insult at Richard Stallman

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Created by komrad 20 weeks 6 days ago – Made popular 20 weeks 6 days ago
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Mono, Open Core, and Other Bizarre Forms of Open Source

http://boycottnovell.com

Why Mono fits the description of Open Core, which may make it "the New Shareware"

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Created by komrad 21 weeks 3 days ago – Made popular 21 weeks 2 days ago
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“Open Core” Is the New Shareware

http://ebb.org

Ultimately, “Open Core” is a glorified shareware situation. As a user, you get some subset of functionality, and may even get the four freedoms with regard to that subset. But, when you want the “good stuff”, you've got to take a proprietary license. And, this is true whether the Core is GPL'd or permissively licensed.

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Created by akf 22 weeks 1 hour ago – Made popular 21 weeks 6 days ago
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Open Core: The worst of both worlds

http://www.jejik.com

However, I think that most them are missing the elephant in the room: Open core is not sustainable in the long term because it represents the worst of both worlds. Open core tries to find a middle ground between proprietary software and free software, but it reaps the benefits of neither and inherits the problems of both.

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Created by john.brubrick 22 weeks 6 days ago – Made popular 22 weeks 6 days ago
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