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Discussion on: Why I open sourced my startup

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Stephane Paquet

How do you protect from large organization hosting and managing the app for their customers without paying you a dime? It has been an issue for Elastic vs AWS and few other open source projects experienced that as well.

Having the user committing back is great, but they should not be entitled to operate your project as a SaaS. What do you think?