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leke

I'm currently investigating a self hosted AI solution for my workplace.

I was wondering, how does this company make money?

From the pricing there is a free/community/opensource option, but how is the "up to 5 users" monitored?

https://www.tabbyml.com/pricing

* Up to 5 users

* Local deployment

* Code Completion, Answer Engine, In-line chat & Context Provider

What if we have more than 5 users?

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Are you asking on a public forum, on how to get around using a product for a commercial setting by using the non-commercial version of the product?

I'm saying I don't understand their open source model. I thought open source meant you could use and modify code and run it yourself without having to pay a license. ie completely independent of the maintainer. So I was confused by this limit of how many were allowed to use something you are running yourself.

You have it wrong. Neither "open source" nor "free software" imply free-of-cost. Paid software with open and free license is very much a thing.

If you want to drill into the details of the licenses: https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/blob/main/LICENSE

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