Let's not fool ourselves, there is no such thing in these companies and products that appeared during the last few years. There is no free/open-source spirit, it's open-washing and the model usually get more closed and more closed year after year (going through an incredible variety of licenses, market segmentation and other marketing & sales tricks), following the evolution of the owners' greed.
It's a regular business that is freemium-minded, period.
Let's not fool ourselves, there is no such thing in these companies and products that appeared during the last few years. There is no free/open-source spirit, it's open-washing and the model usually get more closed and more closed year after year (going through an incredible variety of licenses, market segmentation and other marketing & sales tricks), following the evolution of the owners' greed.
It's a regular business that is freemium-minded, period.