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Ask HN: "Opensourceit till you make it" Who is on the list?

by quijoteuniv on 3/21/24, 8:18 AM with 9 comments

I could not find a good source of all the projects that changed their licenses after they became "successful" and stop being Open Source. I am sure we can gather a nice list here

  • by king-of-turtles on 3/21/24, 4:01 PM

    A lot of OSS founders make bold claims to their contributors and donors like "oh we'll never take XYZ feature away or charge for our services". Until they do.

    It's fine to be proprietary. It's ideal for most business models that are products and not building blocks.

    It's better to start as closed source, then go open if you feel it's a good route for what you're building. You'll piss less people off that way.

  • by quijoteuniv on 3/21/24, 8:54 AM

    I had in mind Terraform, Redis, ELK & Linkerd when I wrote this

  • by Nischalj10 on 3/21/24, 4:08 PM

    Elastic

  • by jaggs on 3/21/24, 8:47 AM

    OpenAI Occulus Rift?