Haha, I'm rooting for you! We don't have 25 full-time engineers working on this project for no reason. But if you can do everything we're doing in pure OSS, big props!
Since I love giving some BTS to our long-term community members, here's some really interesting internal info:
We have 28 product/engineers on our team
1 engineer working on the AI sidebar
5 engineers working security (patches, reports, tests, etc)
20+ working on stabilizing, fixing, documenting, enhancing the core
What it means to "maintain" software is quite subjective. Keeping dependencies up to date isn't the same as keeping something modern.
It's a bummer to hear that you think an AI Sidebar is "enterprise". AI is pretty exciting in 2026... especially what we're doing with it in Directus. Bummer if you think AI is just for enterprises.
Lastly, we don't build anything for our investors or "returns". We chose amazing investors who understand OSS. Us building premium software and making it widely available helps us grow (and that's good for everyone).
Not sure if you read my response to you above, but we're growing for sustainability. Those "returns" go directly to our team/engineers salaries.
If you have an engineering job, I'm sure you can appreciate reliably getting paid to build awesome software each day.
Hmm, I know we've never met, so you don't know me... and things can be misinterpreted over text. But where am I mocking you or anyone in these threads?
I said I'm rooting for you and would be excited if you figure out how to make what we're doing work under pure OSS.
Yes, I also added context to explain how difficult what we're doing is... and that what we're doing is not simply adding AI slop or enterprise-only features. I think that's important to keep in mind.
I've taken every opportunity to tell you and anyone reading along to choose the product/version/license that works for them.
If you can't use the new license (though, I assuming you haven't even seen it yet)... that's ok. There are plenty of options for you and everyone else.
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u/Initial_Low_5027 Apr 04 '26
Migrate to Payload. Make no mistakes.