Yep I remember backing FontAwesome's initial Kickstarter and, as they grew and evolved, emailing for licensing for basic on-prem / OEM / content editor use, and

Yep I remember backing FontAwesome's initial Kickstarter and, as they grew and evolved, emailing for licensing for basic on-prem / OEM / content editor use, and it was clear the modern web folks like them didn't have a way to sustain anything beyond their saas flow. As with the rest of OSS, big companies are starting to release their own equivalents as they need these kinds of use cases. So it's near-term right of FA for sustainable or more profitable growth to do their model, but long-term a big existential risk. Was frustrating as someone explicitly and demonstrably ready to pay and valuing ISVs thriving here and being forced to go the bigco oss way.