lethedata's comments

Not translated but I'm not surprised my grammar stinks. Hopefully that improves a as I write more. Made a few edits and ran paragraphs through languagetool to hopefully clean things up a bit.

Also I have no idea how I managed to misspell CrowdStike like every time without noticing.

I think it comes down to is the project there to make money or not. If it's mainly for money then it would never start out open source (ie AWS) but if it's a solution to a problem that can be improved via collaboration then it'll be Open Source (ie OpenStack). This hasn't really changed over the years.

What we are seeing here, as others have pointed out, is that companies are buying Open Source solutions and then close sourcing them because they view it as a money maker which in the end leads to forks.

I think the long term game works if you look at it from a Broadcom style prospective. You're not looking to snag many users but rather the few very expensive ones who have built themselves around the product. From the Businesses prospective they'll pay the increased prices to avoid moving completely or in the short term during migrations.

To avoid the short term, providers could "buy time" and keep prices low until the project deviates far enough from forks, making migration much harder, then increase prices.

Either way, long term they can end up with a lot of money from a few companies rather than continuing to support many mixed sized companies.

I don't like it either but I can see it working.