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by flakiness 1492 days ago
Nice! The page looks more like a SaaS offering or something, which initially scared me away a bit. I hope the emphasis is more on the opensource library and showing paying options as some premium thing.

I didn't realize that the "too nice" landing page makes me anxious for open source software :-/

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To pull the curtains back a bit: we probably spend about 85% of our product and development time on open source code. Just this week, we developed copy and paste, nan value filling, and spilling a text column on a delimiter - all of these are open source features.

As we've begun to engage with larger teams, we often take features that we build out for their workflow and open source them as well - a few of the teams have been explicit proponents for the open source tool, which is awesome to see.

I'm sure our thinking on this will evolve over time, but we are highly focused on developing just a _great_ piece of open source software. And for folks that need more power, we want to give them the chance to get it - while also supporting Mito's development :)

P.S. Check out our Mito Pro roadmap here: https://www.trymito.io/plans#mito_pro_roadmap. Feedback appreciated!

Well first of off, thank you, I put a lot of effort into implementing that landing page :)

We're super focused on the open source offering. The vast majority of our users are on the open source version and the vast majority of the features we release are open source! (You can check out our PR's if you're interested in verifying)

The Mito Pro and Enterprise plans are designed for advanced users and teams. In those versions we provide features that make it easier to collaborate, create presentation-ready materials, and hook up to other company resources.

But we're an open source tool through and through!

Fancy seeing you here, writing the same comment as me... :}
I am not so sure about the open-source fact. Please see comments and thread below.

Edit: It is GPL by now as seen here https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo/blob/dev/LICENSE