You are correct and it's in fact worse than even you deescribe. Startup SAAS companies have to pay to create and maintain permissions/login/user setup etc, they

You are correct and it's in fact worse than even you deescribe. Startup SAAS companies have to pay to create and maintain permissions/login/user setup etc, they have to do marketing and pay to build a brand, let's say that's 30% of their work. Well with Cloud Provider most that work and cost is spread over multiple products. So they can develop and do that part cheaper. Then because the open source version tends ot also be open community, the cloud provider will pitch to your community on your own chat channels: https://ryan-h.com/2023/07/22/the-end-of-open-source-tech-saas-companies/ https://ryan-h.com/2023/07/22/the-end-of-open-source-tech-sa...