As the founder and CEO - did you not think to stop and look at the market? For example what happened recently with Terraform/OpenTofu, Redis, etc?
You basically took the same route as these companies and while your intent may be different, from the outside it looks like another company making a grab an Open Source software with changing licences and renaming products.
Again, it may not be your intent but you made the first mistake in marketing which is - see how others have done it and what the outcome it.
For me as a Tech Lead/Architect - currently looking at event-based architecture, this is a bit of a turnoff of the entire product stack - because it suggests you might be lining things up to sell off.
You basically took the same route as these companies and while your intent may be different, from the outside it looks like another company making a grab an Open Source software with changing licences and renaming products.
Again, it may not be your intent but you made the first mistake in marketing which is - see how others have done it and what the outcome it.
For me as a Tech Lead/Architect - currently looking at event-based architecture, this is a bit of a turnoff of the entire product stack - because it suggests you might be lining things up to sell off.