For what it's worth, I'd advocated to adopt SourceGraph at work for a long time but the open-source version being impossible to deploy essentially blocked us fr

For what it's worth, I'd advocated to adopt SourceGraph at work for a long time but the open-source version being impossible to deploy essentially blocked us from ever considering it. I don't doubt that your perception of the OSS version's lack of success is accurate, and it is definitely easier to close off the source, but at the same time the outcome of this is that one funnel into it is closing with the calculation that the effort spent to keep that funnel open wasn't worth the people coming in through it. The other possibility, and one that I subscribe to (not that it isn't self-serving) is that the funnel was never open enough to see success in the first place.