<story><title>Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More</title><url>http://blog.datomic.com/2016/11/datomic-update-client-api-unlimited.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hga</author><text>But would it put Rich Hickey&amp;#x27;s children through college?&lt;p&gt;This is just not something we&amp;#x27;ve got a good, reliable answer for.  E.g. I&amp;#x27;m pretty confident that his creating and being the BDFL of Clojure wasn&amp;#x27;t sufficiently remunerative.</text></item><item><author>tosh</author><text>I bet if Datomic were open source it would get adopted at an incredible pace and become one of the go-to tools for working with data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamii</author><text>It would be nice if we had more well-understood funding models for software. The games industry has some interesting ideas eg:&lt;p&gt;Unity - free community version, pay monthly for extra features and to remove the splash screen, option to stop paying and keep license but stop receiving updates&lt;p&gt;UE4 - free, source code is on github (but not FOSS), takes 5% of your gross revenue after first $3000&lt;p&gt;Lumberyard - free, source code available (but not FOSS), you must either run your own private servers or use AWS</text></comment>
<story><title>Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More</title><url>http://blog.datomic.com/2016/11/datomic-update-client-api-unlimited.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hga</author><text>But would it put Rich Hickey&amp;#x27;s children through college?&lt;p&gt;This is just not something we&amp;#x27;ve got a good, reliable answer for.  E.g. I&amp;#x27;m pretty confident that his creating and being the BDFL of Clojure wasn&amp;#x27;t sufficiently remunerative.</text></item><item><author>tosh</author><text>I bet if Datomic were open source it would get adopted at an incredible pace and become one of the go-to tools for working with data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tosh</author><text>I think there are a lot of valid reasons for the current model and I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure it (and the changes over time) are well thought through.&lt;p&gt;That said I also think it is worth to regularly revisit what an open sourced Datomic could do for adoption of Datomic itself as well as for Clojure (edit: not to mention what the impact would be like for the world at large). I&amp;#x27;m optimistic that there are monetization opportunities through SaaS, consulting and other licensing concepts.&lt;p&gt;Ideas?</text></comment>