Edmund Edgar (goat/acc)
@edmundedgar.eth
Cool so they hired the guy building the main alternative client to kill it, they're rebranding to the protocol name to cut the legs out from under the others, and it's going to be proprietary software forever.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Base is launching a client with an order of magnitude more users than our client. So it’s actually increasing decentralization. Super wasn’t open source. And we’re planning to open source our clients.
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Edmund Edgar (goat/acc)
@edmundedgar.eth
You just said you're planning to keep essential parts of the client, the backend you need to make it actually run, closed-source. Don't get me wrong, it's nice that the incredible community of builders we have here will finally be allowed to fix your bugs for you
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
We won’t accept PRs. It’s purely for people to see / fork the patterns. The protocol is permissionless. People are free to build FOSS if that’s important to them. If that doesn’t happen, then clearly not important yet.
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Edmund Edgar (goat/acc)
@edmundedgar.eth
Anyone can build on it but at any time you, or optimistically in future you and one of your investors, can go "oh hi people aren't going to see stuff you post with that client any more". If you and your investor have defacto control of what all the users see, you may as well skip all the snapchain business and use a normal database.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Open sourcing the client doesn’t solve this issue.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
If we had any intention of doing that, why would we waste our time with the protocol? If you don’t believe us, why spend time here?
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