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What I love best about open source is that it's communal and cooperative. I love getting paid, too, and there's great software out there under a whole range of commercial models, but we'll undermine trust in OSS if we accept license switches as the norm.

I think it makes sense to acknowledge that your position here is different than many OSS authors, in that Serilog is a natural funnel to Seq, a closed-source commercial offering (that I love!). I think that's a really strong model but not necessarily available to every OSS author.

Hey Sean! 👋 I think that's just a way of saying, I didn't choose one path because I chose another 🙂. Seq didn't exist when Serilog was released.

I also think the OSS model of "consumers will become contributors" didn't pan out in most cases, leading to maintainer burnout without a viable comment model and entitled consumers. And now, OSS consumers have to be ready to adapt to license changes when they happen.