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by ezekg 685 days ago
> Anyone that isn't in it for the money won't give your product a second look.

I think Sentry in particular has proven that you're wrong here. They have over 10k users self-hosting their software under a Fair Source license [0], which goes against your assumption that it will fail. It has already succeeded.

[0]: https://blog.sentry.io/sentry-is-now-fair-source/