Well based on historical experience with Postman and Insomnia most probably Bruno will go the same way once they get enough users hooked in.
Especially once a VC gets into the fold.
Especially once a VC gets into the fold.
Happy to see Bruno at the top of HN
We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them.
We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping
They haven't.
Like, that's kinda the whole point of offline-first, local-only tools, you can 100% use them in a an environment you control and take responsibility for. Once you take control of customer's data, there's a whole litany of due diligence that must considered, and often at considerable cost.
Your link makes sense, and I believe you. Have struggled with similar issues. But who knows what the future will bring? Google once said "don't be evil"; Oracle bought Sun. Is there any way you can guarantee your future actions? Contracts, articles of association/company constitution? Maybe setup a trust or charity? I don't think there is.
1. Open source everything, including the parts of the code that are currently premium
2. Switch to a copyleft license like the GPL
3. Start accepting substantial contributions from the community without a CLA
Then they'd be legally unable to do that kind of rug pull.