Penpot has recently attracted a lot of attention, especially in the open-source community. Rather than relying on the common open-core model, an eigenständiges Geschäftsmodell was developed for the open-source application: the so-called Open Nitrate Model.

At first glance the concept looks like a mix of open-core and free-code approaches, though the exact distinction and how it works aren’t entirely clear to me yet.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.