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So if you are aiming to be full featured, the modularity plus open source is your differentiator?

What are you going to do if AWS/GCP/Azure decides to offer a managed services version of your software? (I know, I know, that'd be a a great problem to have.)



AWS etc. already offer these services so the risk is low. I dislike the recent trend of companies changing licenses from a formerly FLOSS solution to "source available".

It prevents little in practice and makes it so that your original differentiator i.e. open source is no longer true.


> AWS etc. already offer these services so the risk is low.

I'm not sure about that. AWS had a NoSQL database, but replicated mongodb.

Anyway, I think that the risk doesn't occur until and unless supertokens hits a home run. I mean, if you're big enough for a hypercloud provider to copy, that means you've been pretty darn successful in distribution of your product.

But the risk is there.

As for the relicensing, I have sympathy for both viewpoints. I posted this in a different comment, but this medium article does a good job of talking about both sides of the issue: https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-busin...




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