On: The race to replace Redis

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The shift to open core was ten years ago. Open core failed and is being replaced with pseudo open source.

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Open core only became a word people said 10 years ago, it's on the rise as a business model from what I can tell.

Do you have suggestions for alternative funding/support models? What is open core being replaced by from your perspective?

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Open core is being replaced by "selling exceptions" to AGPL/SSPL/BUSL/FSL. See MongoDB, Elastic, Hashicorp, Redis, etc.

Personally I prefer the Adam Jacob trademark business model but it's not that proven and it can't be retrofitted.

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OP, OpenSearch, OpenTofu all seem to indicate the jury is still out on this one. I still see many smaller projects using open core. Three I started using recently ( llama-index, langfuse, qdrant ) are in this category.

There is certainly a difference between AGPL and BUSL style licenses. One of the new projects I'm using as some of their code with a BUSL style, but still open core primarily

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https://medium.com/@adamhjk/introducing-the-community-compac... for folks wondering what Adam’s buisness model is about