I know Laravel the company already has numerous paid offerings, but to date they’ve all been pretty reasonably priced and not really anything that locks you in. Should we expect this to change? I feel like we have to
We've seen a similar playbook with Basecamp and their influx of cash from Bezos back in the day. Taylor really leans into the DHH philosophy of business/programming so I still think it's too early to take this as a "sell out".
That said, all good things come to an end. I hope Taylor will always have the decency to at least go out on good terms with the community and not let the whole thing just crash and burn because he sold off too much equity to bad faith investors.
I’m more just concerned that sooner or later the piper will want paying and things don’t always go so well from that point on.