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In »Open Source: A capitalistic value engine« Christian Paterson was quoted for opensource.net as follows: Equally, clever engineering that separates commodity – or core – core-functionality with value-added functionality enables companies producing Open Source software to embrace an open and collaborative developer community whilst not providing a completely free lunch for competitors. Of course, if competitors start to feed back into the project because that makes operational sense for them, they effectively become co-investors. That may not stop them from obtaining an advantage, but it helps make the relationship less unidirectional. In this manner, one of the best defence tactics against competitors gaining an unfair advantage is to co-opt them into the project through a genuinely open and meritocratic governance structure. ...

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. ...