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Comment by phaedrix

3 days ago

IIRC they went fully open source because they couldn't make it as a for profit company.

Selling dev tools is ferociously hard, as partially evidenced by this thread talking about how changing anyone's development flow/tooling/process is also ferociously hard

I would guess dev tooling usually also falls into the "nice to have," or as my former CEO used to say "vitamins vs painkillers"