Wow that really is a poorly worded phrase. If someone from GL is reading this, please fix that, it makes you look pretty bad.
Just be honest and say you want to charge for advanced features, because there's little money to be made in open source and you're a business after all and want to pay your employees a living wage.
One of the awesome aspects of being transparent by default: taking an internal conversation between three coworkers and making the recording and transcript public. I love being able to share our strategy publicly and talk about it openly.
While I can't change what I said, we can make the blog post more accurately reflect our beliefs as reflected on our Stewardship page[0]. There's no limit on what "deserves" to be open source. And, imho, GitLab has open sourced a ton of advanced functionality already.
But "GitLab Inc. is a for profit company that balances the need to improve GitLab Community Edition (CE) with the need to add features to GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) exclusively in order to generate income."
It says all those things your comment does. This is what happens when you dump an entire transcript of an hour long video, someone takes one poorly phrased line.
They could rephrase it to: "we consider this an enterprise usage pattern for our software so this feature will be included in the paid Enterprise Edition".
Just be honest and say you want to charge for advanced features, because there's little money to be made in open source and you're a business after all and want to pay your employees a living wage.