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Yeah yeah. Haven't we already seen this going on again and again. Companies love OSS until they get some amount of traction in the market. And they'll jump ship to being a proprietary vendor right away after that. Can't believe people fall for this shit all the time.

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Companies exist for profit. If open sourcing helps them getting to a point where they will make more profit, they will open source. If later going proprietary helps them make more profit, they will, too.

Still what they released as open source stays open source, so it's still a win. Also if contributors don't sign a CLA, then it makes it harder for the company to go proprietary. To me that's the only thing: contributors should not sign a CLA: either contributors keep their copyright, or they should not contribute for free.

Being opensource helps finding bugs in something you rely on if it does not go away fast enough. Sometimes I had success with this, although not ideal, one more option.

Even if for profit and all

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