[bityard]

> Frankly speaking, I don't believe in open-source projects without paid components

Can you clarify your scope here? I mean, there are thousands of of active projects out there maintained by their creators or communities and are not monetized. They contribute to open source because they get enjoyment from working on the project, participating in a community around it, or derive meaning from putting something nifty into the world.

Making money in relation to open source projects is not a new idea, but the notion that every good idea needs to be monetized certainly is pretty recent.

[vmatsiiako]

Yes, I think I phrased it in a wrong way. Sorry for misunderstanding.

What I mean is that there is a point until which the open-source project is not popular enough to be fully supported by the community. If this point takes too long to reach, and there is no way to financially support the project - the project might go bust or stop being maintained. We’ve seen it happen with quite a few even very popular projects.

Which is why personally I think the best way to build a sustainable open source project that is helpful for the community is to provide the most needed functionality for free and find a way to monetize the enterprise-level features.