Ok, fight fire with fire (inflammatory post with inflammatory response) here it goes:
Scumbag Hipster Young Startup -- with a 3 floor building (mentioned CEO coming down all the way from the 3rd floor), aggregating 50M events related to sales every day, taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of volunteered man hours put into the FOSS stack they are using, are throwing a hissy fit about having to pay the creators of the software they are using for an enterprise feature.
Arguably you are paying for a license that covers support and the ADDITIONAL functionality. Everyone still has free access to the core code that people contributed towards.
If they were to take contributed code and lock it behind a commercial license, THEN you could get all uppity.
Others are pointing out that they routinely reject these features in the FOSS offering, citing a conflict with the enterprise edition. That's the worst part of this, imo.
I don't disagree, but my point is that the code people freely contributed prior to this change is still freely available to the public.
If they are rejecting patches for features that impinge on their enterprise offerings and you have an issue with how the project is run now, you are welcome to not contribute, fork, or use another project.
>If they are rejecting patches for features that impinge on their enterprise offerings and you have an issue with how the project is run now, you are welcome to not contribute, fork, or use another project.
No, you were insinuating they had an obligation to provide monetary compensation to the people who contributed code to the open source product when they sold licenses to the closed source product.
It is not they volunteered. These people volunteered as well for the longest time and then wanted to put some bread on the table based on their efforts. Don't see how that is a "screw you".
Scumbag Hipster Young Startup -- with a 3 floor building (mentioned CEO coming down all the way from the 3rd floor), aggregating 50M events related to sales every day, taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of volunteered man hours put into the FOSS stack they are using, are throwing a hissy fit about having to pay the creators of the software they are using for an enterprise feature.