Comment by jpalomaki
8 years ago
One could argue that both Atlassian and Github were to some extent successful, because they kept the open source competitors away by giving out free licenses to open source projects.
With these free options available, people in community were less interested in putting effort to free (as in speech) alternatives for these closed source products.
Yes this is likely. However we can have our cake and eat it too, companies can host an instance of an open source service. Like Gitlab does
EDIT, yes I am aware that there are some non open parts in Gitlab.com
What parts of gitlab.com are non-open?
They refer to it at as 'open-core':
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225725
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