This is very sad but also not very surprising. It's notoriously hard to sell an 'open core' product (mostly, against yourself OSS) and structure the entire GTM and the org properly for scale. Having built a successful 'open core' company before & judging from the first-hand experience - this looks like an extremely desperate move, indeed. (Btw, we never changed the license, but discussed it often, ofc.) It's also all very disruptive, destructive and hostile to the community - it's 'we aren't open source anymore,' so I'm surprised they are trying to convince people otherwise (gaslighting, eh?) I'd expect the 'open core' enthusiasm of the past few years to decrease dramatically, and I wouldn't recommend an 'open core' path to anyone who's trying to build an actual big company around their OSS. I remember the time when 'open core' was a taboo word, post-MySQL/Oracle. I was doing the company launch and accidentally told a reporter we were doing [something like] open core - that didn't work nicely :) It's ironic and sad, BSL comes from the very same folks who basically invented 'open core', then spoiled it forever. It's been also always thought-provoking to me, too, those folks never build more - or differently - after MySQL.
