alt Hacker News> “Mattermost only got where it is today because of the open-source community.”
Not really? FOSS communities overestimate their importance on a daily basis.
Case in point: Linux. 90%+ of commits were corporate sponsored… in 2004. The pure community member does almost nothing of importance for Linux anymore; or any of these projects.
It's because you misunderstood the reason - they OSS part got them some free advertising and users that gave it a try and got on the subscription.
Now VC's want their money so gotta make people that can't be bothered to get off it to migrate to paid plan