I don't know, do these the majority of these companies actually rely heavily on free contributions? Personally I would rather buy a product where there is "fai

I don't know, do these the majority of these companies actually rely heavily on free contributions? Personally I would rather buy a product where there is "fair source" available but premium features were paid for than a completely closed source product. That's my perspective. I do think it's tough when amazon comes and takes a code base that consists of mostly (say) elastic co employee code but is open source and then competes with elastic on the basis that they don't have to pay the software developers. It's really rubbish capitalism, and something needs to be available to protect any company that pays developers to build an open source product/business. Otherwise we end up back at open source developers not getting paid, and that's not good for anyone.