Because recurring revenue vs no revenue or one time revenue is hard to pass up as a business.

I do think cloud based sharing/features do have their place in a tool like this however.

My company would happily pay for licenses. Not after this shit was pulled, though. They even went so far to remove the Kong enterprise api management products from our internal order system. It's not so great to work with a company that pulls the rug underneath you without warning.

I also think these features have a place. I'm quite sad that Kong completely destroyed all trust our company had in them.

Agree. I have no qualms paying for open source software if I think the owners treats their users well. I pay for Joplin Cloud but so far they haven't hidden all my data behind a forced signup screen (unless I jump through some export hoops just to end up in a worse user experience)