We're seriously evaluating the possibility of open-sourcing the product, following the example of ie. Ghost. It's pretty clear to me that it's the only way we can 100% guarantee to our customers a product that's here to stay.

Nevertheless, static websites are extremely open by-design. If you're no longer interested in using DatoCMS for whatever reason, you can simply export all the content and go back editing your Markdown files manually or with some other tool.

So you have a lot of clients who will pay you but you want the person who wrote this highly complex tool to give you their source code for free?

Would you consider paying a price for a hosted version of the product (not the source code)?

That is an uncharitable reading of the comment because the person did not ask/demand that the software be open sourced. Instead it provided specific feedback as to why the software did not meet their business needs.

Those needs are not without historical precedent where a company has taken a dependency upon another company that later folded or changed direction or updated the product in incompatible ways or repriced it in ways that changed the value proposition. The decision to only use open source software looks like it was made based on client's best interests and professional experience.

I was about to disagree with you, but reread the original comment and it indeed can be read that way.

At first I read it as if the commenter were complaining of the closedsourcedness of DatoCMS.