> It's happened to me a number of times now where the license for the features we were using went from open source to proprietary with 5-6 figure cost. In thos

> It's happened to me a number of times now where the license for the features we were using went from open source to proprietary with 5-6 figure cost. In those cases, prior to the project going commercial, did you contribute nontrivial code to the project and/or financially sponsor the project? I could see being upset in those situations, but in most cases I find the answer is no. > If I had known this would happen, I would never have used it in the first place, used an alternative, or maybe just never bothered with the project. If you had used an alternative, the same scenario could have played out with the alternative. Realistically, what are the "never have used it" / "never bothered" scenarios? Presumably you chose the project because you needed it for something; that implies the never-bothered alternative is essentially just writing something from scratch instead. Which you can still do now. And you can use the last FOSS version of the project as a starting point, which saves a tremendous amount of time. So how exactly were you burnt by a supposed "rug pull"?