On 04/14/2010 03:49 PM, Mario Torre wrote: > > But let's take it ever more extreme. > > Fedora can be considered in some ways as the core version of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux. > Not at all. Fedora is upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora has more packages than Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both of these are free and open source versions. At this point, you are very very far from the "open core" business model. The definition of "open core" is very specific. http://alampitt.typepad.com/lampitt_or_leave_it/2008/08/open-core-licen.html One of the important requirement of open core is centralized copyright control which none of the examples you cited have. Rahul -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing