open-core*
More free software cosplay. :(
> Grist Labs is an open-core company. We offer Grist hosting as a service, with free and paid plans. We also develop and sell features related to Grist using a proprietary license, targeted at the needs of enterprises with large self-managed installations. We see data portability and autonomy as a key value Grist can bring to our users, and grist-core as an essential means to deliver that. We are committed to maintaining and improving the grist-core codebase, and to be thoughtful about how proprietary offerings impact data portability and autonomy.
And compared to the alternatives (nocodb, mathesar, baserow) they seem to provide the best self-hosted/open source solution in terms of polish and features.
*Edit* I've been looking for a while for a similar software stack for the organisation of a coop I'm a member of, and have not found anything better as of now, though open to alternatives!
It’s like a factory that respects human rights for 95% of its employees; such a factory can’t be said to respect human rights.
Microsoft releases a lot of free software, too. This is just a proprietary software vendor that wants to come off as a cool open source company; that’s all open core is: a marketing bullet point. I believe the term “open source cosplay” is appropriate.
If you aren’t faking a personal respect for software freedoms, you consequently release 100% of all software you produce as free software.
It’s okay to be a proprietary software vendor. Not everyone agrees on the four software freedoms being important. It’s just misleading and inconsistent to brand yourself with the ideology, and then not live up to that.