[josephcsible]

The right solution to that problem is to avoid open core. Instead, use products that are fully open source, so that even the "commercial" features are free.

[SkipperCat]

I'd argue that open core products are what keeps open source alive. Without the ability to monetize the enterprise features, there'd be no justification for products like InfluxDB or others to exist.

[josephcsible]

But there are a bunch of companies with open source projects that aren't open core, like Red Hat and Grafana.

[SkipperCat]

I thought Grafana was open-core. They're OSS product is in Github - https://github.com/grafana/grafana and they also offer their enterprise version which requires a paid license. RH is pretty much the same.

Maybe my definition of open-core is different than yours.

[josephcsible]

You're right, I didn't realize they did that, and I do consider them open core now that I know. I think Red Hat is still a solid example though.