Thank you, this really helps. Totally agree—hallucinations and leakage are scary, especially when prompts can be engineered to expose things you didn’t think were vulnerable.
We’ve been leaning toward open-sourcing the data plane for exactly the reasons you mentioned: trust, adoption, and building a community around the core tech. But I’ll be honest—there’s still that fear in the back of my mind: what if someone forks it, strips out the branding, and rehosts it? Or if buyers say “well, it’s open source, why should we pay anything?”
Did you or your team ever wrestle with that? Or have you seen OSS models work well in this space where the control plane still delivers enough value to justify a paid tier?
We’ve been leaning toward open-sourcing the data plane for exactly the reasons you mentioned: trust, adoption, and building a community around the core tech. But I’ll be honest—there’s still that fear in the back of my mind: what if someone forks it, strips out the branding, and rehosts it? Or if buyers say “well, it’s open source, why should we pay anything?”
Did you or your team ever wrestle with that? Or have you seen OSS models work well in this space where the control plane still delivers enough value to justify a paid tier?