Show HN: Lunar XDR Brightness control
I&#x27;ve noticed a lot of Apple software pretends to be open-source (like this one: &quot;Lunar is also open-source so you can check that for yourself: Github - alin23&#x2F;Lunar
&quot;), when they really aren&#x27;t. They&#x27;re - at best - open core: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open-core_model" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open-core_model</a><p>For example, I quote from the Lunar GitHub page:<p>&gt; I&#x27;m pausing contributions for the moment as Lunar has paid features and isn&#x27;t compilable because of missing parts of the source code (Pro features code is encrypted).<p>&gt; Lunar can&#x27;t be built from this repo yet as the source code for the paid features is hidden. I will try to post stubs for those paid features to at least make it compilable in an only-free-features form.<p>So right now I couldn&#x27;t modify and&#x2F;or redistribute Lunar as I see fit. It is not open source.<p>And even if the Lunar repository is updated so that it at least compiles the free version, then what? Then it would fit the strictest definitions of open-source (you are free to modify and redistribute), but would miss the community aspect completely due to misaligned incentives. I could add a great feature, but my pull request would be denied if it overlaps a paid feature.<p>You could fork Lunar at that point and make all the traditionally paid features for free and accept pull requests simply based on merit. But at that point you would be open-source, and not open-core anymore, and the concept of a paid version would simply go away. I don&#x27;t really see open-core actually working in any way other than an attempt to leech contributions from the open-source community without playing by its rules.