&gt; From an engineering point of view it should be a separate gem...<p>Absoluitely, this isn&#x27;t an engineering decision it&#x27;s to finally test and see if there&#x27;s a market for people to support open source now that we&#x27;ve built something that was widely requested.<p>&gt; From a marketing point of view I understand the move, but I don&#x27;t like it much.<p>I&#x27;m actually with you, it&#x27;s a little bit driven by the fact that if we don&#x27;t make the product break-even we&#x27;ll have a hard time to continue running it at a loss.<p>HN often complains about services that were free suddenly disappearing, or being discouraged from investing to learn&#x2F;adopt a product that has no clear model behind making it sustainable.<p>I find it interesting that for closed source products that people run for free the crowd seems to have a different view than when someone tries to make <i>open source</i> sustainable through some measurement&#x2F;monetization, even when it&#x27;s done in a very considerate way.<p>&gt; Anyway, I&#x27;m using mina (less feature complete but much fa<p>Mina is great where it fits, I have a slew of projects using everything from Mina through Puppet via Chef and Ansible, a couple on the side still using Capistrano ;-)<p>This luxury of choice is one we too often take for granted.