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"open core" sounds like a different word than "open source" to me

why are none of the popular open source hosting providers fully open source? that's the least you'd expect of such service!

wikipedia can do it after all, so it must be possible!

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...and it has a yearly donation drive. Okay for a community project (in the sense of "steward to public data"), not okay for a service provider. And a service provider needs to cover costs - e.g. by running a customized, better version of the OS product.

Because no one really wants to self host their own version of wikipedia. But many companies want and do host their code themselves.

No one wants to self host wikipedia but many self host wikis that are off topic for wikipedia.

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