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How much of the stack will be open source? In the week after FoundationDB ceased to exist, there's still that nagging question of what happens when you guys get acquired. If the UI and deployment piece was open source and could be self-hosted it would make your own free and paid hosting + CDN more attractive by removing this concern, as well as open up revenue streams for supporting on-site enterprise installs.

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I suppose technically the UI is already available given they give you the html/css/js in your browser (though perhaps not for redistribution, although this is a bit of thorny argument, given how the web in general deals with caching/proxies. I suppose if typekit can both give, and not give you fonts, a company can both give, and not-give you js/html/css).

Would be very nice to see this opened up with their blessing, though. Knowing that a viable self-host alternative exist, makes paying for the service (and supporting future development) a much better (and easier) business decision.

I'd liken this to Dabble DB that just disappeared when Twitter acqua-hired the team. Everyone (that wanted) got their data out, but couldn't keep their work flow -- which is a pretty expensive hit to take.

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