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They are making lot of enterpise bucks though. And they did start as Open Source. Killing it midway to serve their convenience is the issue.

There's also tonne of Open Source that isn't as popular but serving niche communities. It's definitely harder but not impossible. OS core and paid hosting with bells and whistles has proven to be a good sustainable model.





> OS core and paid hosting with bells and whistles has proven to be a good sustainable model

Redis, Elasticsearch, Terraform, MongoDB, CockroachDB have all changed their OSS licenses in recent years.




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