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gdsdfe | 1 year ago

is this like a PR stunt ? genuinely curious

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HuwFulcher|1 year ago

Being cynical it looks like a way of holding features hostage for the purpose of extracting revenue.

I sympathise with the problem of re-sellers abusing their hard work but they are also creating two different classes of product with this change.

whynotmaybe|1 year ago

Sonarqube/cloud is working the same way.

Community edition with enough features for small businesses.

Once you reach a certain size, you'll need the other features but you now have the money to pay for it and as you've used the community edition for some time, you know that you want this products. (and if the product is deep into your workflow, the cost of change is high that you'll rather pay than switch)

As I'm currently building the stack for my startup, I'm more interested in that model than into a "full features 7 days trial" that then turns into a 19$/m/user.

BoredPositron|1 year ago

They got backlash from their community for switching licenses. They got forked and now want to appease to the forkers/fork users by offering a slightly better license... Seems like the the 101 for Startups atm.

ezekg|1 year ago

When did they recently try to change licenses? I must have missed that. I don't see any PRs or issues related to a license change, aside from their change from MIT to AGPL 4 years ago.

detaro|1 year ago

How is this offering "a slightly better license"?