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Doubling Down on Open (Elasticsearch)

• jerrac 9y ago
  > But driving these products forward as quickly as we do requires significant investment, and that’s why we formed a company around this technology. Figuring out how to balance being open source while making enough money to keep developing has got to be a difficult task. I've been happy to see companies like Elastic and GitLab succeeding. Even when I'm disappointed in the features they choose to place behind a pay wall. I think their move to a package with free, non-open source, options enabled, plus non-free options disabled by default all in one package is smart. I know I've been very confused with what options were free and how to enable them. I also like that they will have a fully open source package as well. Now, if only they'd open source the security and authentication code. That's one feature I've never liked that they kept it closed.