> Your project gets to have top tier programmers as maintainers, make all the nifty features, fix all bugs etc. for free or at minimum cost In most case in the

> Your project gets to have top tier programmers as maintainers, make all the nifty features, fix all bugs etc. for free or at minimum cost In most case in these companies it's maintained and created at the expense of the company. I would expect that 90-99%% of the code, product development (talk to users, understand needs, etc), even devrel (marketing) (be on every conference to convince people to use it, that codification is good)- it's a lot of money, resources, and effort. > New startup, cool idea, not much budget to hire engineers In this case a few folks build it from the ground initially (most likely founders) I think. Please, let's not forget about this. The important thing here is to discuss why did they do this (I meant relicensing it). Most likely- trying t create a moat from a lot of other VC-funded companies that play in this space? Not sure. It would be great to know their exact concern.