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Not shocking, a lot of time goes into making Vite and they need to make money.

One approach is to setup consulting services. Looks like Void Zero's approach is to start building value-add tools and features on top of Vite that are no longer free.

The decision that users must make now is whether it's worth the risk investing in Vite, assuming that more and more functionality will move to the paid tier.

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Consulting doesn't scale though and draws resources from development itself, harming both the OSS and the business side.

All functionality as part of OSS projects will stay there. OSS projects such as Vite, Vitest, Rolldown and Oxc will stay open source.

Eventually, the (financial) success of Vite+ is directly tied to the health, stability, and adoption of the free, open-source Vite ecosystem, so the incentive is rather low.

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