Ask HN: "Opensourceit till you make it" Who is on the list?

A lot of OSS founders make bold claims to their contributors and donors like "oh we'll never take XYZ feature away or charge for our services". Until they do.

It's fine to be proprietary. It's ideal for most business models that are products and not building blocks.

It's better to start as closed source, then go open if you feel it's a good route for what you're building. You'll piss less people off that way.

I had in mind Terraform, Redis, ELK & Linkerd when I wrote this

> Terraform

And all the other HashiCorp products

Elastic

OpenAI Occulus Rift?

Were any of those ever open source?

Well OpenAI (name's a clue?) but the Rift is something I seem to remember from when they crowdfunded the launch. It blew up when it transitioned into closed source after taking money. But my memory could be playing tricks here.

> OpenAI (name's a clue?)

Name doesn't mean anything, did they actually open source anything...?

Jukebox, CLIP and other bits and pieces. https://analyticsindiamag.com/6-open-source-models-from-open...