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by was_boring 3420 days ago
I think as a consumer DB that may have helped. However, if the company (rethinkdb in this case) is still small enough, and the client big enough, than they can work out a contract that states that the source code gets licensed to them in the case of a shutdown.

This allows the company to get larger accounts with no real downside as they would be out of business.