alt Hacker NewsThis isn’t about people working for free.
Nobody sensible is upset when a true FOSS “working for free” person hangs up their boots and calls it quits.
The issue here is that these are commercial products that abuse the FOSS ideals to run a bait and switch.
They look like they are open source in their growth phase then they rug pull when people start to depend on their underlying technology.
The company still exists and still makes money, but they stopped supporting their open source variant to try and push more people to pay, or they changed licenses to be more restrictive.
It has happened over and over, just look at Progress Chef, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Terraform, etc.
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> bait and switch
Is it really though? They're replacing one product with another, and the replacement comes with a free version.
In this particular case, it's the fault of the "abused" for even seeing themselves as such in the first place. Many times it's not even a "bait-and-switch", but reality hitting. But even if it was, just deal with it and move on.