[22c]

You forgot the part where a holding company eventually buys Stability and starts to squeeze their customers that built the core part of their product around a pricing structure that's "static + CPI".

With a bit less snark; I think the pricing structure is reasonable, but that doesn't mean customers won't eventually get screwed over by it. See the Unity fiasco from earlier this year (which was backed out, but serves well as an example).

[all2]

> See the Unity fiasco from earlier this year (which was backed out, but serves well as an example).

They learned from the Russians. The Cuban missile crisis wasn't about Russian missiles in Cuba, it was about establishing an air base in Cuba. The missiles were the "price shock" item, and the airbase was the goal. If the Russians had put in just an airbase, it was very likely they never would have kept it.

[emadm]

Know it well from video game days, but its being set up for huge predictability / stability given we have simple company control.

The base membership is even separate from other services, designed to support open model development.

[22c]

I think the point is that a company can be owned and ran by "the good guys" until it isn't. This is why so many people are worried about the future of Bandcamp.