I don't think anyone is saying anything about it being evil, and it may even make sense for InfluxData the company. But for users, not having clustering (for sc

I don't think anyone is saying anything about it being evil, and it may even make sense for InfluxData the company. But for users, not having clustering (for scalability, long-term storage, and durability) will limit the value of the open-source version a lot in the long-term. As for the viability of a fork, see the other comments around that.