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my question stands. if you are a corporation, why are you offering an open source in the first place? i am not talking about a library developer who built it fo

my question stands. if you are a corporation, why are you offering an open source in the first place? i am not talking about a library developer who built it for fun but because its MIT, every faang is using it extensively and the original dev is not getting any remuneration while faang is earning big bucks. that is not the issue here. specifically if travis had the idea to pull a bait and switch always to the community, isnt that bad? why offer "free for open source" in the first place when you know it will cost them money and developers need to earn? no open source community is begging for handouts.

AdrianB1 6y ago
As a corporation you open source at least pieces needed for interoperability, that is a valid reason. Otherwise you can get into the pains of SMB/Samba or drivers for paid databases for more programming languages one is able to support. For example Microsoft is working on the PHP driver for SQL server, this helps them by opening the door to PHP developers to use MS SQL and eventually pay for Standard or Enterprise editions instead of using the free Express one. It is kind of a freemium game.