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Comment by truthsayer123 | Hacker News Reader

Folks interested in this space and actually wants to work on open source, now is a good time to fork Lang chain.

The moment they raised VC funding the open source project is dead. All their incentives are now to 100x the investment they just raised. They would start putting core features behind an enterprise license.

Contributors of langchain please fork the project and make a better project! Stop sending free contributions to make the investors rich.

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This isn't true, many open source companies make money in ways that don't diminish the core open source product, Kafka/ElasticSearch/MongoDB/Supabase/Vercel/Grafana/Red Hat/etc

Most of them have the core features put behind an enterprise license.

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This is so true. Sad to see a promising open source project being sold out. I doubt now if langchain can truly ever reach its potential of supporting additional models beside OpenAIs and would be able to support user contributed tools or agents.

Why not provide the free contributions to an open source fork yourself instead of begging others to give up their own time?

The appeal is to existing contributors or people who are interested in open source and wants to work on this space. I am not either of them nor use the product.

If you're unwilling to do it yourself then don't demand others do it.

Why not? They have freewill and can choose to do it if they want to do it.

Could use more competition

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