> Startups OSS their work because it helps them get users and figure out what to build. Therein lies the problem: Startups esp the ones that need to grow reall

> Startups OSS their work because it helps them get users and figure out what to build. Therein lies the problem: Startups esp the ones that need to grow really fast and at all costs choose to permissively give away their proprietary advantage but still want to "capture most value" from the market they help create are making it unnecessarily hard for themselves by going down the F/OSS route just to "get users and figure out what to build". It is a losing strategy (you'd agree?) because... if the startup's F/OSS product is any popular and lots of users do use it, it is only inviting the likes of Amazon (and anyone with the chops to build a cloud offering, really) to package it as SaaS / PaaS around it. I'd like to see startups experiment SSPL / CCPL / Commons Clause licensing from day zero (like materialize.io) to see if they can still attract users or build mind share. I'd hate for them to instead release it under F/OSS licenses (and CLA all contributions) to only conveniently turn hostile with super-strong copylefts like SSPL or non-Libre licenses like Commons Clause and BSL.