I am genuinly curious about your view, so please be patient with me when answering. The way I see it, someone is providing a free product and is maintaining it

I am genuinly curious about your view, so please be patient with me when answering. The way I see it, someone is providing a free product and is maintaining it. They are even doing (imho) a great job. Of course, that costs money - and we only need to look at other opensource solutions to see what kind of UX they have if the creators are only charging for support. So the options I see are: - have a worse product, but truly opensource - have a great product, fully opensource, but some features will never be added If you develop the missing features, you would need to maintain a clone. You could do it if you really wanted to, it would take a lot less work than developing the whole solution from stratch. But - and this distinction is important for me - if the company ever went under or, worse, got sold to Oracle, community would almost surely take the CE sources, add those features and maintain a clone. At least for a while... In my view GitLab is a perfect example how to make a sustainable business around opensource core. So the question is - can you think of a better sustainable business model to support development of opensource solution?