> do you think Sentry would have been able to get enough of a mass of users to justify getting the VC funding it did if it weren't a MITish licensed product in

> do you think Sentry would have been able to get enough of a mass of users to justify getting the VC funding it did if it weren't a MITish licensed product in its early years? No. > How do you value the various libraries of user interaction, issue submission, and other market intangibles? Highly. Dirk Riehle has a post from 2009 where he talks about the business benefits of Open Source community. I quote from it in the Fair Source FAQ: > Fair Source provides many of the same benefits for companies as Open Source, by helping to foster an engaged developer community around your software products. https://fair.io/faq/ https://fair.io/faq/ > I notice that you dont mention them at all in your writing about Redis. Why is that? Because my blog post predates Valkey by a week. I've added an update.