Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag for entitled users
I think the take is partially right in that people are too entitled when it comes to these things, but there's a reason why that is and there's differences on the side of companies offering these benefits.A lot of companies do openly tout and incentivize people to move to their platforms loudly advertising their free features. And given that these are infrastructure platforms, they do that knowing very well that there is a certain kind of lock-in. If you create outsized expectations in your users in the name of spurring growth, you don't get to complain about them.I think Sourcehut does this in an ideal way. On the site it very clearly says that it's currently free, but as soon as it goes stable it expects users to pay, in fact they actually sent me an email reminding me of that fact. There's no shiny "we have all these shiny features, the first dose is free!" behaviour.