Hard to trust anything released as OSS these days that hits this site run by a for profit company.. Its all destined to have a rug pull after some VC funding. Considering HyperDX is a for profit company, I'm sure we won't have to wait long!
Once that happens - eventually some new kids would appear on the block.
Such is the life.
On the commercial OSS side of things - I suspect the trend there is more nuanced than all OSS companies being suspect to the same problem, but rather companies that generally solve a "behind the API" problem are more susceptible to problems of cloud vendors taking their code and competing with them commercially (ex. if you're a DB like Redis, Mongo, Elastic - or a CLI like Terraform). We're building an end-user experience (more like Gitlab) - where experience differentiation matters a lot more than simple infrastructure hosting, something AWS is not particularly well suited at competing on!
It's been 3 years of Gitlab post-IPO and they're still MIT, and that's the boat we're on as well :)
> It's been 3 years of Gitlab post-IPO and they're still MIT, and that's the boat we're on as well :)
I totally understand your optimism but keep in mind that GitLab was exploring a sale as at 4 months ago https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/google-backed-software...
If they get bought or have a change of management, they might revisit the MIT license.
IANAL, but AIUI they for sure can do that to the content of the "ee" directory, but all other contributions are just DCO, not CLA https://about.gitlab.com/community/contribute/dco-cla/#which...