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Open source software companies that go proprietary: A timeline
Tracking open source software companies that have gone proprietary over the past 10 years: A timeline.
“The community has not grown because of MTOS, nor have we seen download numbers that are any greater than our paid versions of Movable Type, so at this point it does not make any economic sense to continue to maintain and distribute something that is getting very little use,” the company wrote at the time. Back in August, Cockroach Labs announced yet another change: It would consolidate its self-hosted product under a single enterprise license, as a way to encourage larger businesses to pay for the features they really need. And as of this year, Sentry is putting its weight behind a new licensing paradigm dubbed “fair source,” which, as TechCrunch reported at the time, is “designed to bridge the open and proprietary worlds, replete with new definition, terminology, and governance model.”
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