One advantage of using open source products, even if you only use the commercial version, is that they place a limit on how “evil” the company can become: at so

One advantage of using open source products, even if you only use the commercial version, is that they place a limit on how “evil” the company can become: at some threshold, people might decide to put in the effort to fork it (like MariaDB). My company has had people straight up tell us that they are comfortable using our managed service for that reason.