[eminh]

Sad news, although it was obviously coming. Glad for Igor and others involved, but for me it is about time to start looking for alternatives.

[cbg0]

You need to start looking for alternatives because they put out a slightly more advanced version only available to subscribers?

[mordae]

This sucks. Why? Because having e.g. "Adaptive Multimedia Streaming" in the Pro version might mean that you won't get it in the open version since the professional product would lose it's edge. I would much rather see a model where features from the professional edition propagate to the open one after authors earn enough from subscriptions.

[troels]

There's definitely some problems with this business model. On one hand, having a premium product means that Igor won't be contributing as much features to the open source version. On the other hand, it might discourage 3rd party developers from contributing features that are already covered by the premium product. There's probably some upsides as well, but it's certainly not without its issues.

[eksith]

Is that really necessary? People didn't stop using RedHat via CentOS because upstream is a commercial product.

Mainline Nginx is still available while this seems to be a value-added product with a bunch of extras.

[eurleif]

The difference between RedHat and CentOS is basically just branding. That comparison doesn't make sense.

[FooBarWidget]

And which alternatives are you thinking of?