opensource

Occasionally I try to convince a software business that it's worth open sourcing their product. Here's my latest spiel. Anything missing or false statements? Should I make this into a blog post?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

For the record, they were already considering it and reached out for my take on how to think about it.

I like pointing out how highschool and college kids love screwing around with open source projects, so it's a good chance to hook awesome programmers to your platform while they're young 😁

Perpetual soldier of fortune, occasional internet slacker.

Cooking 0xFable — the fully on-chain trading card game for nerds

I get the anxiety, and I share it too, but the reality is that anyone willing to put in the effort to maintain a fork and advance it with a velocity beyond the original author is already motivated enough to clone it. We saw this with AWS on several occasions, like when MongoDB changed their license.

One thing I personally struggle w/ is I like to make my sofware A LOT easier to use & onboard than the norm, and that makes it much more likely to be copied w/ an organization with bigger resources. So you really count on them not getting your value  prop, but if you communicate that well...