I upvoted to counter because the morally hazardous incentive does exist with proprietary tech that you become super dependent on. This risk may not apply to the

I upvoted to counter because the morally hazardous incentive does exist with proprietary tech that you become super dependent on. This risk may not apply to the founders (Rich, who we all love), but to a future acquisitor like Oracle, IBM or AWS. I predict that AWS will buy Cognitect. I think they are aiming for that exit and is part of why Datomic Cloud is so closely integrated with DynamoDB and other AWS services.