The viability of open source as a long-term business model is being questioned with Cockroach Labs' recent licensing change, which eliminates its free Core offering and requires users making over $10m in revenue to pay for the proprietary Enterprise license. This move may stifle long-term growth and kill the growth engine by adding friction for businesses considering adopting the database. The trend of restricting core access and features is seen in other former open-source projects, such as MongoDB, Confluent, Elastic, Redis Labs, and others. In contrast, a company like YugabyteDB has successfully adopted an open source model, with over 10,000 users and millions of deployments, and reaffirms its commitment to open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The open source model remains one of the most successful approaches to developing and distributing business-critical infrastructure software, offering exponential adoption growth and strategic optionality for customers. PostgreSQL is expected to continue as a popular and widely-supported open-source database, with YugabyteDB providing runtime compatibility and inheriting its vast ecosystem of integrations.