Comment by meghan
4 days ago
Seems similar to Apple's 2015 acquisition of FoundationDB -- they sunset the commercial offering. But it's unclear if they acquired Styra or just hired the team?
I'm maintaining an article about this news (as well as commercial alternatives to OPA) on the Oso blog: https://www.osohq.com/post/opa-maintainers-join-apple-oss-co...
Disclaimer is that I work with Oso :-) but hope it will be helpful regardless.
This is a more defensible take than some on here, but still a wild comparison. FDB was closed source software that existing customers kept source access to the entire time it was closed, and then opened under a permissive license soon after. So yes, you couldn’t buy it, but if you had, you kept access to new development.