Isn't it dangerous to give up all the code of a commercial software in the age of LLM?
Competition can clone the project in another language and lipstick it to look different.
Competition can clone the project in another language and lipstick it to look different.
The real moat is not the source itself but the reputation. Setting the right price point is the actual challenge. You have to find that sweet spot where the price is high enough to fund development but low enough that the friction of paying is less than the friction of cloning the repo and building it yourself. If you price it like a corporate seat then people will fork it out of spite. The goal is to make the official binary the path of least resistance.