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cozzydyesterday at 10:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

Are there any VC-funded open source projects that didn't attempt rug pulls? (There must be, right?)


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curuinoryesterday at 10:55 PM

metabase.com, but metabase is intended for business analyst types and is AGPL, with shenanigans for embedding and an enterprise edition thing

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imirictoday at 12:02 AM

Grafana has been a pretty good steward of OSS. Whether you like their products or not, they've been able to balance the OSS and commercial offerings fairly well.

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sophaclesyesterday at 10:58 PM

Whether or not they attempt rug pulls, or other slimy measures to extort money from entrenched users... this VC backed OSS startups have given us some nice things. People fork the permissively licensed code when the scumbuckets get too smelly and the company goes on to irrelevancy while people use the actually OSS version.