If you had invested your career in AKKA I would feel your pain and disappointment, and the feeling of being cheated with lofty talk about open source. But you

If you had invested your career in AKKA I would feel your pain and disappointment, and the feeling of being cheated with lofty talk about open source. But you might still have a strong career in supporting customers who use the commercial version of AKKA, they are the ones who could pay your salary. And you could fork it, and be the leader of that community. Until perhaps you decided to make a commercial fork as well. :-) I think it is in a way a good sign when an open-source project creates a commercial fork of itself, it shows there are paying customers for the software, it validates its existence. And I think it shows these guys believe in their product.