I hope Datomic does well and Rich easily puts his kids through college. But as a developer I think the current license is a bit of a shame. I've played with Da

I hope Datomic does well and Rich easily puts his kids through college. But as a developer I think the current license is a bit of a shame. I've played with Datomic, think it is fantastic, and would love to use it. However: - After the closure of products such as FoundationDB and Parse, I will never have a significant dependancy on a closed source product again. (maybe if the company was a behemoth like Microsoft or Oracle, but these days probably not even then.) [1] - As a little guy, the $5000 I would need to pay after one year to keep getting updates to the product is just too much. One could argue that Datomic are looking for bigger fish, but something to consider is how important it is to get people using your technology (al la Microsoft 'developers developers developers!') Little guys can go on to be bigger guys making the important technical decisions. There is post above looking at the licensing done by game engines such as Unity, where larger companies pay more and the little guys are given a break until they are making a profit. Hopefully we will see more of this in the future. [1] https://www.wired.com/2015/03/apple-pulls-plug-tech-company-runs/ https://www.wired.com/2015/03/apple-pulls-plug-tech-company-...