Better Auth has raised $5M. I don’t think it’s great to see a truly free project get absorbed into a commercial venture.

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bstsb 6 hours ago | parent [-]

while i agree, in this case at least it looks like the money raised is for a future SaaS auth solution built on top of the open-source project

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9dev 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Which will invariably lead to that open source project to become less and less useful if implemented separately from the SaaS platform. I’ve seen this game plan often enough.

Good for them, bad for the rest of us.

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joshdavham 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I’ve seen this game plan often enough.

I probably haven't been around as long as you. Could you provide an example of one that comes to mind?

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ascendantlogic 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We all know how this ends. The open source project ends up being crippled to the point it's no longer useful.