Commercial Open Source Software
The term Open core or commercial open-source software refers to a business model involving the monetization of free and open-source software. This model primarily involves offering a "core" or feature limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software, or offering other services for the open source version in a similar manner.
The concept of open core software has proved to be controversial, as many developers do not consider the business model to be true open source software. Despite this, open core models are used by a large number of open source software companies.
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