Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/open_source_companies_cloud/
Analysis On Thursday, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, companies building open-source code gathered to figure out how to survive having Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sell their software as a service without paying for the privilege.
The confab has a name, the Open Core Summit, where "Open Core" refers to the marketing strategy of offering a core service for free and charging for complementary capabilities. Presumably, "Freemium Summit" didn't pass muster.