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shazow
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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?
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Norswap 🏴☠️✨
@norswap
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...
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shazow
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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.
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Norswap 🏴☠️✨
@norswap
I think this works on some kind of sofware not on others - works well with deeply complex things that keep evolving etc... Uniswap is a good example. Sure it's "easy enough" to reproduce without forking, but the situation would be much worse if you could just fork.
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shazow
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It might be true but fwiw everyone feels that they're the exception. I'm honestly not convinced that sushiswap was net negative, it certainly accelerated uniswap's posture around their token mechanics. It doesn't feel net negative for the consumers and ecosystem. I'm moderately salty about their new code being BSL.
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