On: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for...

[prabhatsharma]

98 to 99 percent of the contributions in all open core projects come from core contributors. You take the core team out and you will see the project die.

[growse → prabhatsharma]

Which way round is this causation though?

Are they the only contributors because they're the only people who care, or are they the only contributors because they're hostile to any external contributors?

[abenga → growse]

There's an easy enough way to prove or disprove this: fork the project, rename it, and overtake the original product in quality/features.