this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
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These products are also used among their enterprise customers. So they cannot simply abandon them. But customers are not paying directly for these products (only for the server software). So they make them free. Maybe they hope to lower maintenance costs.
The higher plan must be to maintain good morale among the existing customers, and maybe slow down or even stop their exodus.
"Here, have this piece of niche software that's ok I guess as a way of me charging you out the ass for the only product you actually care about."