[toomuchtodo]

> The best possible response to a company doing this is that someone forks the code, starts or expands a competitor, and the original company's revenue drops massively as a deterrent.

Example of the last time this worked?

[riffraff]

Jenkins/Hudson?

Oracle decided to make Hudson commercial, it was forked and Jenkins is still around but Hudson is dead.

[pjmlp]

Meanwhile Cloudbees has several product to sell you on.

Turns out Jenkins development needs to be sponsored somehow.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I don't know what the impact was on their revenue, but pretty much anything Oracle has ever touched.

[toomuchtodo]

But still wildly profitable!

https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2023/...

[gkbrk]

ElasticSearch? A lot of people moved to open source forks.

[BoorishBears]

I hate OpenSearch with a passion, an absolutely horrid lagging project that can't get basic autocomplete working (https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/...)

but still manages to suck the air out of the room when you want Elasticsearch because AWS already has the company's billing details and no one wants to figure out paying another provider.

[pjmlp]

From where I am standing, no one cares they exist.