I think it's a business question.

We've spent 6 years and many millions developing our platform Kortical to make it much easier to build ML solutions to solve business problems and operate them to meet enterprise SLAs.

I'd like to think that some of the stuff we've done is pretty hard but it's not to say that other talented people couldn't build the same things themselves. It's more of a case of if we let people license our platform for a tiny fraction of the cost that it would take to create the equivalent, then is it worth them doing it from scratch?

Like if a big complex Web scale solution would would take a team of 8 a year to build using open source but you can just leverage something off the shelf and get the same result with 2 people in a month, then is that the best option for your team?

If yes get the ML platform, if not don't