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Why not open source it so we can run it on our own hardware? Why does something useful have to go away because a business couldn't be made of it?

• brudgers 10y ago
  Often open sourcing a project requires a lot of work. If it uses licensed technology it may require some money too. And sometimes the engineering is uniquely tuned to the context in which the project was developed to the point that it makes no sense, for example the code contains dependencies on specific service providers like hosting companies or CDN's or expects unique hardware configurations.
  • ben_jones 10y ago
    Surely there is value in code that can't be run. If I write a nodejs app that only runs on Google app engine, it still might be useful to someone else.
    • zachlatta 10y ago
      I think you underestimate the difficulty of open sourcing some projects. At the last company I worked at, we really wanted to open source some of the stuff we were doing, but we literally couldn't because we depended on some private APIs and were under NDA.