Yes, because OSS software enjoys a massive popularity boost -- there are a lot of people who will always chose an open source product if one is available. So in

Yes, because OSS software enjoys a massive popularity boost -- there are a lot of people who will always chose an open source product if one is available. So in the option (2) some software will turn proprietary, but I bet that overall number of OSS users will not change that much... it will be just re-distributed. For example, if ElasticSearch would have been closed source? People would go to Solr. If Solr closes? Postgres and a lot of swearing. You have to remember that while AWS ElasticSearch was a bad thing for Elastic Co, it was absolutely great for all sorts of much smaller companies who did not have enough resources to run their own clusters, as Elastic's offering is 2x price of AWS one [0]. [0] https://medium.com/gigasearch/which-elasticsearch-provider-is-right-for-you-3d596a65e704 https://medium.com/gigasearch/which-elasticsearch-provider-i...