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> For anyone evaluating infrastructure dependencies right now: the license matters, but the funding model matters more. Single-vendor open source projects backed by VC are essentially on a countdown timer. Either they find a sustainable model that doesn't require closing the source, or they eventually pull the rug.

I struggle to even find example of VC-backed OSS that didn't go "ok closing down time". Only ones I remember (like Gitlab) started with open core model, not fully OSS



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