[throwawake]

This seems to be their business model.

> In the future, we’ll build and sell services on top of our tools — but the tools themselves will remain free and open-source.

> Our plan is to provide paid services that are better and easier to use than the alternatives by integrating our open-source offerings directly. Our goal is for these services to be as impactful as Ruff itself — but you may choose not to use them. Either way, Ruff will remain free and open-source, just as it is today.

It's there in their announcement post.

https://astral.sh/blog/announcing-astral-the-company-behind-...

[SushiHippie]

> Our plan is to provide paid services that are better and easier to use than the alternatives by integrating our open-source offerings directly.

What are the paid alternative services they are talking about?