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> need to make money on the software itself.

It would make a lot of sense for them to slowly close it down or modify it so that it eventually only makes sense to use it on their platform. Or something similar. And given what I've seen from their behaviour I would expect them to exploit whatever market leverage they can.




What you described is exactly what Elastic doing now, and it triggers a fork. We will be fine if it happens again.




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