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That hasn't worked well for too many people. Most OS businesses that haven't failed tend to dual license, and cripple the installation/documentation(technical or product) in some way for the OS version.



Yesterday's VMware acquisition of SpringSource suggests there is a very lucrative market.


Case in point though: spring source had "community" builds + special builds for customers, and the community builds + documentation were crippled somewhat. I know a lot of commercial open source users (who weren't paying) were disappointed by some of their actions.


I wasn't disagreeing with you that that is what they are doing. My point is that it has been successful.


Yeah, it's one solution. Freemium or paid versions for business is another.




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