How much do you pay per month for:
Apache, Nginx, Varnish, Redis, memcached, compilers, interpreters, Nodejs, Cassandra, Linux, Postgresql?
We used to pay for this stuff - remember Sun? Things change.
I suspect what happened with InfluxData is that being venture funded, they see that the funding environment has changed and are racing towards revenue/cash-flow positive. And clustering as a premium feature is, apparently, the answer.
If clustering had been pegged as a premium feature up front then neither I, nor I suspect would anyone else, have a problem. But it wasn't, hence the sour taste.
Yea, but even free software maintainers need money from somewhere. Especially if you want $software to continue improving.
It's fantastic that free software has increased so much in market share. I just wish that more companies would recognize that that only works if they actually pay for development of some projects in some way. That can be directly employing maintainers, contributing patches, sponsoring feature development.
Since that often doesn't suffice you sometimes end up with companies trying to make ends mean with "open-core" type models; even if they'd otherwise prefer not to go down that road.
We used to pay for this stuff - remember Sun? Things change.
I suspect what happened with InfluxData is that being venture funded, they see that the funding environment has changed and are racing towards revenue/cash-flow positive. And clustering as a premium feature is, apparently, the answer.
If clustering had been pegged as a premium feature up front then neither I, nor I suspect would anyone else, have a problem. But it wasn't, hence the sour taste.