[bhouston]

I think this is still a good service. It is just a mirror. It is a way of giving back to these open source operating systems and cutting their costs. Thus embrace it but be smart about it so that no one is trapped.

Dejanews isn't the same. That was an archive of a dying technology. This isn't the same case. Usenet was a dying technology, ultimately killed by http.

Cloudflaree has always done the free thing to raise it's popularity. You are right that as companies get bigger it can be harder to keep revenue growing and they slowly start to cross lines they didn't before though. If that company has built reliance on it's free tools which have reduced diversity, when they start to cross lines it can be sort of a trap. This usually isn't intentional now but it is just how things work... Years from now revenue growth might require crossing a line...