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hot take: vc-backed startups that make their core product open source are great actually. at some point the investors realise you can't make enough money and force you to close it, but who cares. in the meantime you made a great addition to our collective software inheritance
people should stop worrying about this. well, everyone except the people trying to convince vc's to give them money. need to mislead them
the trick of course is building a project that won't immediately lose its usefulness if $$$$$$$$ aren't been thrown at maintaining it. you definitely cannot build a web browser engine this way
@hikari Do you have any real examples of that happening?
@dflxh of what in particular? it's been a repeated topic of discussion lately with a number of open-source startups pivoting to more of a “source available” model
@hikari okay i see what you mean now