Snowplow is no longer open source

On January 8th 2024, thousands of Snowplow open-source users, ranging from startups to Fortune 500, woke up to a new reality where the underpinnings of their infrastructure suddenly became a potential legal risk.

At Snowcat Cloud, we, like many other businesses, use Snowplow Open Source in production. New and existing Snowplow users should continue to be able to run an up-to-date behavioral event data collection platform with a low operational cost.

Furthermore, the world needs a reliable, secure event pipeline that can scale cost-effectively and is easy to maintain.

In the last few years, Snowplow has focused more on locking in users than setting them free (which is understandable). Still, we believe there's a better way: Integrate with existing, cheaper, and ever-evolving cloud services.