> However, if we want to have a SaaS offering, making it Open Source could encourage people to trust that relying on that will not incur future debt. This is be

> However, if we want to have a SaaS offering, making it Open Source could encourage people to trust that relying on that will not incur future debt. This is because they can circumvent future problems by self-hosting the open source version. People hate vendor lock-in, but you don’t need to open source a whole self-hosted version of the system to mitigate this concern. There’s a huge overhead to managing an open source product, issues, contributors, stability etc… and now you have another duplicate system to support A better option might be to open source a migration tool or export tool, which would help people easily leave the platform if they really need to