< I can just hear investors asking "why the ever-loving * are you making it so easy for others to clone your biggest product?" It is telling that no one in th

< I can just hear investors asking "why the ever-loving * are you making it so easy for others to clone your biggest product?" It is telling that no one in the meeting could actually answer that: "We still face formidable competition, and we do not believe our moat will hold for more than 12-18 months before whatever replaces us in the market emerges and begins rapidly eroding market share, resulting in dwindling profits and share prices. By allowing an unofficial free-tier -- a clone, as you say -- of our enterprise product, we keep developers from rapidly switching to Debian and it's derivatives. Once that happens, the hosting and enterprise data center markets will collapse irretrievably leaving us with only legacy customers who will leave, one server age-out at a time."