On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 09:30:57AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It's more than that. While the community edition of gitlab (assuming > we don't get stuck with the proprietary version) is technically open > source, the main fork is run by Gitlab who have a conflict of > interest in adding features that compete with their enterprise > edition. If it comes down to needing a change they don't want to > add, then we need to be willing to maintain a fork or switch to > something else. While this is true for a lesser amount for using any > free software, there normally isn't the same incentive for most > projects to reject enhancements submitted back upstream.
Sure, this is a reasonable concern. Open core isn't my favorite business model. But, doing open source as a business is hard. Not everyone can be Red Hat. :) We have good relationships with people over there -- I've talked with them before about other things -- and I think we'll be able to navigate anything that comes up. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
