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Would you be able to point me to the talk or blogpost of nextcloud that talks about their business model in detail? I would be very interested in how it works in practice, how they differentiate with their enterprise versions and so on. I agree that their business model sounds like having the best of both worlds, so any material on the details that you could share would help me a lot figuring out how to replicate it for other solutions.

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Last I checked they ratelimit push notifications using a proprietary push gateway, unless you’re a paying customer.

The feature exist in both versions but you pay for additional capacity which is not what they are talking about when they said deciding whether the feature should be in community or enterprise.

If you look up Frank Karlitschek and "I forked my own project and my own company", he's given this talk many, many times.

As for it being the best of both worlds, it depends what best means.

A company that wants to make a lot of money won't do well with this model. It's a slow growth model requiring a lot of hands on work that requires customers who are paying for features and custom installations.

It's labor intensive work that's quite the opposite of the proprietary software model, which has traditionally had a lot in common with the publishing or entertainment industry. Write a book, get paid for it for years.

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