Open Core is bad for freedom. It creates incentive to make work proprietary. It's bad for community members, who are now unpaid labor for a company. It's bad for customers who are often forced to use a proprietary product in order to get support, and it's bad for employees who would like to include free components, but can't because they compete with their own proprietary ones.
Open Core is just bad all around.
@bjoern @clacke I'm responding to @clacke 's assertion that "One is better than the other?"
"Death of a project is worse than a community fork" is true, but not what we're discussing, I think.
Taking a firm anti-Open Core stance is a new position for the OSI, which has always been more business oriented. I'm proud of the OSI for taking this stance, because Nextcloud itself is a story of how Open Core is just not a good model.
We need to find innovative funding models, Open Core isn't it