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What's the business plan, being open source, since you've taken funding? Do you pledge to stay open source? Linear already syncs with Slack and GitHub, and your UI is clearly inspired by it, so what would you say is your biggest differentiator? I hope this does not come across as overly harsh.

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Yes, we pledge to remain open source.

1. Our design is inspired by the linear UI, which we believe is the best. We didn't want to reinvent this aspect.

2. As for our differentiation, we've been building the system for two months and believe none of the existing systems prioritize AI. We're focusing on deploying AI agents in specific use cases such as:

    1. Task prioritization
    2. Feedback management
    3. Bug resolution

3. Business Model: We already have a beta version of our cloud service live, where we charge on a per-user basis.

Once you become popular what stops amazon etc from simply implementing your open source software themselves and charging businesss. We’ve seen it time and again, perhaps most famously with elasticsearch.

Indeed, I experienced this at Airbyte when Amazon began to charge for implementing Airbyte on their platform. In response, Airbyte took proactive steps such as bolstering the community and modifying the license terms to prevent this.

Additionally, there's a certain inertia involved in applying for all integrations. These, however, will come pre-packaged in our cloud-hosted solutions via OAuth's.

As this is a recurring issue, we plan to engage with the community for ideas on how to effectively address it.

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