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by nickpsecurity 3865 days ago
As I said in another comment, many of the companies pushing this model are VC-funded with intent to sell out and their operation disappears into a big company (or disappears). We should distinguish between business models that are just to get an acquisition and that support long-term growth. Cheap addons with OSS/FOSS seems mainly to work in the former.
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I agree. I was responding to the parent comment suggesting Sourcegraph should adopt a similar business model to GitLab and I was pointing out that perhaps GitLab's business model has not been proven successful yet
Exactly. Way too early.