Absoluitely, this isn't an engineering decision it's to finally test and see if there's a market for people to support open source now that we've built something that was widely requested.
> From a marketing point of view I understand the move, but I don't like it much.
I'm actually with you, it's a little bit driven by the fact that if we don't make the product break-even we'll have a hard time to continue running it at a loss.
HN often complains about services that were free suddenly disappearing, or being discouraged from investing to learn/adopt a product that has no clear model behind making it sustainable.
I find it interesting that for closed source products that people run for free the crowd seems to have a different view than when someone tries to make open source sustainable through some measurement/monetization, even when it's done in a very considerate way.
> Anyway, I'm using mina (less feature complete but much fa
Mina is great where it fits, I have a slew of projects using everything from Mina through Puppet via Chef and Ansible, a couple on the side still using Capistrano ;-)
This luxury of choice is one we too often take for granted.
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