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Consultancy is unlikely to give VC a 100x return.

Enterprise extensions means the cursed land of open core and refusing to have features in the open source version, or a heavy SaaS push combined with a possible license change along the road, and these are the primary reasons to avoid VC-backed "open source for now".




> Enterprise extensions means the cursed land of open core and refusing to have features in the open source version

yes, there are risks in exchange of VC money. You can branch your "Libre" project any time, and continue building on top of infra developed using VC funds and which you get for free.

But what are other choices?




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