> Elastic could have grown (or not) organically with closed source software but that's hard without community help and being able to hire top developers to buil

> Elastic could have grown (or not) organically with closed source software but that's hard without community help and being able to hire top developers to build your product. Yea I don't know. If I saw claims made at [1] by a startup that made proprietary SW, I'd think "yea right". [1] https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/service https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/service