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"Essentially, [Handsontable] was kept running thanks to the money earned from Handsontable Pro. Unfortunately, our observation is that the ratio of commercial t
by asimjalis 8y ago
"Essentially, [Handsontable] was kept running thanks to the money earned from Handsontable Pro. Unfortunately, our observation is that the ratio of commercial to free users is about 1 to 25. Hence, the only way for us to keep investing in the product is to convert more free users into paying."
This license change can play out in three ways: (1) free users convert to paying users, (2) free users move to other products with more liberal licenses, (3) combination of (1) and (2).
- TAForObvReasons 8y ago(3) free users stick with the latest MIT-licensed version (4) free users fork the free version, like what AWS did with Elasticsearch https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/ https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/