I'm not OP, and not currently a sentry user (but I am a sentry fan. That said, my feelings here are the same for other MIT-like to BSL/Fair-source like transiti

I'm not OP, and not currently a sentry user (but I am a sentry fan. That said, my feelings here are the same for other MIT-like to BSL/Fair-source like transitions). > I will then ask, 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? I agree no they wouldn't, but I also think it's not realistic to look at the 2012 ecosystem from the lens of 2024. I'd wager that you'd find it very hard to get VC funding if you had an MIT licensed SAAS in 2024 that could be "jeff'ed". The reality is that Sentry's model worked for the first 6-7 years of it's life, and whether or not it would have survived the competition is something we'll never know.