[john_moscow]

It's almost like the company behind it wants to see some profit after pouring millions of dollars into developing these tools. Except, in 2020 you cannot just have a closed-source easy-to-use documented and supported product with a license fee. Not in the server market, at least. Everything must be free and open-source, and you are expected to make money by offering a hosted service. Except, good luck competing with Big Cloud.

[RocketSyntax]

It's extremely worrisome. The incentive to spend your early mornings, nights, and weekends building something awesome to free yourself from corporate life is fading away. They need to institute some kind of royalty program or at least dedicate engineers to helping maintain the projects they make into services.

Almost have to change gears and get into a scientific field that isn't computer science.