The beauty of open source is you can always fork the previous version. I don't see how it's anymore of a bait and switch than a vendor raising the price of a product.
No relation. This is free, open source, where you can fully use, modify, and continue it as far into the future as you want. A paid model, you lose access if you don't adhere. With this, you're losing nothing except future development time, which you were previously getting for free. These are completely different things.
My naive interoperation of this comment section says there were quite a few people making money on this work, without helping them pay their bills.
The ability to fork something doesn't mean its viable or reasonable for everyone. That's a risk to users in case of both extremes: bait-and-switch tactics (mostly due to commercial motivations) or abandoned projects (see ASF Attic).
RobotToaster|4 months ago
That's often called bait and switch if a subscription price is hiked significantly.
nomel|4 months ago
My naive interoperation of this comment section says there were quite a few people making money on this work, without helping them pay their bills.
einrealist|4 months ago
nomel|4 months ago
Related, it's often not viable to give away something for free.