I’m not them, but the ability to contribute and extend the functionality of the product, whether I ever do it or not, is important to me. As is licensing. I want to build my self hosted stack on things that a company inherently can’t take away when they want more profit. With open source, I can go figure out how to build old code myself once I have the code. With closed source, I can’t download old binaries if they take them off of their website.
What’s the value in an open sourced centralized service? Aren’t you just looking for a free service?
I’m not them, but the ability to contribute and extend the functionality of the product, whether I ever do it or not, is important to me. As is licensing. I want to build my self hosted stack on things that a company inherently can’t take away when they want more profit. With open source, I can go figure out how to build old code myself once I have the code. With closed source, I can’t download old binaries if they take them off of their website.
That makes sense.