Founder of Odoo here. I think you are wrong, at least for the case of Odoo. All the decisions we took have never been influenced by VC, or a goal of large retu

Founder of Odoo here. I think you are wrong, at least for the case of Odoo. All the decisions we took have never been influenced by VC, or a goal of large returns. Quite the opposite: we always execute for the long term (e.g. growing the community), rather than short term benefits. Our decisions are based on good balance between the good of Odoo Community, and the financial sustainability of the company and partners. There is no way we will abandon our open source product. To guarantee that on my own, I kept the majority of the shares. (and I work for the project, not the money) For years, we have had people thinking we will abandon the open source community. But we do that since 15 years now (first VC invested in 2010), and we continue investing massively in our open source version. (Typically, we try to keep a ratio of 80% of what we do is open source, 20% is Enterprise) Explanation of our model here: https://www.odoo.com/blog/odoo-news-5/post/odoo-community-enterprise-532 https://www.odoo.com/blog/odoo-news-5/post/odoo-community-en...