And pandas is valuable particularly because it has so many users. I'd worry that a paid product would stagnate over time, or change to meet the needs of its lar

And pandas is valuable particularly because it has so many users. I'd worry that a paid product would stagnate over time, or change to meet the needs of its largest customers, leaving me behind. I go out of my way to support open source projects. Closed source would be a much harder sell.