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Ask HN: "Opensourceit till you make it" Who is on the list?

4 points by quijoteuniv 3y ago

I could not find a good source of all the projects that changed their licenses after they became "successful" and stop being Open Source. I am sure we can gather a nice list here

jaggs 3y ago
OpenAI Occulus Rift?
- KomoD 3y ago
  Were any of those ever open source?
  - jaggs 3y ago
    Well OpenAI (name's a clue?) but the Rift is something I seem to remember from when they crowdfunded the launch. It blew up when it transitioned into closed source after taking money. But my memory could be playing tricks here.
    - KomoD 3y ago
      > OpenAI (name's a clue?) Name doesn't mean anything, did they actually open source anything...?
      - jaggs 3y ago
        Jukebox, CLIP and other bits and pieces. https://analyticsindiamag.com/6-open-source-models-from-openai/ https://analyticsindiamag.com/6-open-source-models-from-open...
quijoteuniv 3y ago
I had in mind Terraform, Redis, ELK & Linkerd when I wrote this
- KomoD 3y ago
  > Terraform And all the other HashiCorp products
king-of-turtles 3y ago
A lot of OSS founders make bold claims to their contributors and donors like "oh we'll never take XYZ feature away or charge for our services". Until they do. It's fine to be proprietary. It's ideal for most business models that are products and not building blocks. It's better to start as closed source, then go open if you feel it's a good route for what you're building. You'll piss less people off that way.
Nischalj10 3y ago
Elastic