Linkerd's maintainers describe their shift to a weekly 'edge release' model for open source, where stable, backported releases with semantic versioning are reserved for paying commercial customers. This controversial but Apache v2-compliant change was driven by financial necessity — the project was near collapse. Within 8 months of the change, Linkerd became profitable, enabling them to hire more maintainers and fund the project long-term.
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