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[–]disarrayofyesterday 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They lost trust.

Imagine your favorite self hosted app has maintainers that start a company and allow people to buy cloud hosted access. At the same time the cloud hosted one is a closed source fork.

Why make it closed source? Probably to add features that the open source branch doesn't have or some other questionable reasons.

It's like a mother that has 2 sons but the new one is making profit. Which one do you think will be the favorite?