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any examples of companies who have successfully fended off the big corps in this scenario?

• deleted 5y ago
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• sofixa 5y ago
  Depends on your definition of successfully. There are companies such as Sentry which switched preemptively to time limited BSL licenses ( code available, but the license prohibits certain types of use that might come into competition with the publisher), and 2 years old code is under the MIT license. IMHO a decent balance, and Sentry seem to be doing well, without competition based on their code, but idk if they can be considered successful. Grafana Labs recently switched to AGPL for all their software. There are others such as Redis, Elastic and Confluent which switched to more restrictive licenses after managed versions of their software appeared on Bug Clouds, and they're still around.
  • xtracto 5y ago
    I think the article is less about grafana/elastic/mongo type scenario and more about closed source SaaS. We were in the "other side" of this situation a couple of years ago in a previous startup: We were almost ready to sign with DataRobot what we thought was a shitty deal. We were a pretty established FinTech with a good DataScience team looking for ways to streamline our ML process. DataRobot was a good option but the terms were super crappy, and the "aura" of the company was like "though luck if you don't like it". Just about 1 week before we were going to sign, AWS released their ML engine SageMaker with the typical "pay as you go" billing. We lucked out and went with that. Not sure what datarobot is doing now but SM deffinitely cost them a sale.
• manigandham 5y ago
  Snowflake. But its not open source, and maybe that's the lesson.