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Probably not. Release your code publicly so people can read and contribute. Require paid licenses for commercial use over X numbers of seats where X is pretty generous and keep it free at the lowest tier. Those are hard things to claw back later without people completely losing their shit. Then the really hard part is to instill a culture inside your business that they paying customers are funding all the development and don't just obsess about the enterprise use case at the expense of all else. Keep showing the free tier people that you're listening to them. And that's what you'll fail at.


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