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> Hard to scale for serious cases, clustering is impossible in the open source edition and the commercial version costs in the 5 figures per cluster node

I'm really tired of these fake open source projects. If you really believe in software freedom, you simply don't build or distribute proprietary software.

Open core is bullshit. It's like a free software kernel distributed with a closed source libc. Nobody would call that project open source.

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I think you are mixing up open source with free software.

There is no moral imperative associated with open source software; its goal is to leverage the community for more effective software development to further business goals.

Free software is all about sharing as a moral good. But as far as I can see, Crossbar doesn’t claim to be part of the free software movement, only that it is open source.

However, the core of Crossbar is under the EUPL, a license whose text begins: “The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is a copyleft free/open source software license”.

Unfortunately the Open source industry has been hijacked by VCs. They are polluting the space by chasing quick dollars and confusing developers and users.

A company that after multiple years has 4 developers (two of them founders and apparently primary authors of the software) indeed loudly screams "VCs hijacking" instead of "some dudes making a consulting+support company involving their open-source project".

I appreciate (and agree with) your view, but sarcasm is often lost in translation; it'd be a better comment if you made it clearer (even adding an /s or 'eyeroll' would go a long way).

shut the fck up dude

seriously.

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