[lmeyerov]

I'm mixed here --

- Historically, OSS seems to be free product dev for big cloud (... cue AWS's paid PR people to say otherwise ... ). Their integration, advertising, and procurement advantages makes it MUCH easier to win contracts before the OSS devs may even know it is being used and without a bid process. For a fraction of the effort and contribution, they are switching it to a model of monopoly channel owners vs content producers and and driving the sw margins to 0 on the content side. That's why anti-big-cloud LGPL-when-SaaS style licenses are emerging. There are always exceptions, but it's not the axis to compete on unless you do such a license..

- I agree about the community aspect, indirectly. If the software, in addition to being OSS, relies somehow on community and its steward -- not just source code -- and participation in it is somehow what's paying for the OSS dev, yes. For example, maybe the community is also a social network (Slack/Teams across orgs), or generating threat intel -- the software (post-scale) matters less post-scale, so forking is ok.