open source software managed by a for-profit company == unpaid labour + future rugpull
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Meh. Comes down to licensing.
Licenses arenāt written in stone, Gary. Those changed all the time, usually for the benefit of the company.
Redis
Mongo
Elastic
HashiCorp
Confluent
By switching to a closed (or less open) license these companies donāt really see much of a boost on their profits though so itās just mostly a middle finger to anyone who contributed freely, really.
someone said unpaid labour's reward was R E P U T A T I O N