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Well: - as I mentioned before the fact that they were actual open source compared to some of their competitors heavily the decision of the team I was on at tha

Well: - as I mentioned before the fact that they were actual open source compared to some of their competitors heavily the decision of the team I was on at that time to go with their commercial package. That advantage is gone now. - I have spent a few hours voluntarily helping in debugging and following up a couple of issues because it was open source and I was helping us and everyone else. - They might have gotten of the hook a bit easier a couple of times (bugs, half a year of delays) than if they'd been commercial. I don't know, I thought many people here would do the same but I don't know so I cannot say how much goodwill they are losing.

TAForObvReasons 8y ago
FWIW their "largest competitor" ag-grid still has an open source version available: https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid They neatly separated the proprietary parts in https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid-enterprise https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid-enterprise
- eitland 8y ago
  Can't remember who it was but one of their competitors where clearly not understanding open source, they'd state it was Apache licensed and freely available *but according to them you had to sign an agreement and pay a fee to use it commercially".
- mikhailtatsky 8y ago
  About ag-Grid and Handsontable... I am founder of another JavaScript Grid product. FancyGrid - https://fancygrid.com https://fancygrid.com I know much about this market and situation. ag-Grid is too popular and trampled all competitors over catching almost all possible commercial clients. It is unreal to compete with them, they killed this market and become monopolist. Handsontable has no way to do. Now ag-Grid also is going to kill JavaScript Chart Libraries market. Sorely ag-Grid is too successful and leaves no chance for competitors to survive.

TAForObvReasons 8y ago

FWIW their "largest competitor" ag-grid still has an open source version available: https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid They neatly separated the proprietary parts in https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid-enterprise https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid-enterprise

eitland 8y ago
Can't remember who it was but one of their competitors where clearly not understanding open source, they'd state it was Apache licensed and freely available *but according to them you had to sign an agreement and pay a fee to use it commercially".
mikhailtatsky 8y ago
About ag-Grid and Handsontable... I am founder of another JavaScript Grid product. FancyGrid - https://fancygrid.com https://fancygrid.com I know much about this market and situation. ag-Grid is too popular and trampled all competitors over catching almost all possible commercial clients. It is unreal to compete with them, they killed this market and become monopolist. Handsontable has no way to do. Now ag-Grid also is going to kill JavaScript Chart Libraries market. Sorely ag-Grid is too successful and leaves no chance for competitors to survive.