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Why not look into offering a premium platform on top of the OSS offering? What is the license on the OSS software, and are you comfortable offering open sourcing something you want people to pay for?

90% of everything is crap. If your market is underserved, then you have an avenue.

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I am a fan of OSS and wouldn't be particularly worried having my platform be OS, in whole or in part.

I hadn't thought of a premium platform on top of the current OSS solution, that's a really good idea and I will need to look into that a little more. Some elements are MIT, some are Apache 2.0; I haven't seen anything prohibiting commercial use but IANAL.

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