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We hadn’t open-sourced it, so this meant any investment had to be done by us at the expense of our main revenue-generating products. I think it's cute that he
by mynameishere 9y ago
We hadn’t open-sourced it, so this meant any investment had to be done by us at the expense of our main revenue-generating products.
I think it's cute that he thinks he could have open sourced his appalling kludge and gotten some free labor from unpaid OSS devs. He may have been right.
- krallja 9y agoOP here. I believe there are still classic ASP apps in existence that could use Wasabi for the same purpose we did, to switch to more-modern .NET. They would presumably prefer an open-source solution to a proprietary one.
- nikanj 9y agoHe does have the brand recognition, there's bound to be at least a few shops that would've picked the language because that's what Fog Creek uses. Which probably would have led to contributions further down the road.
- mynameishere 9y agoRight. In other words, "He may have been right".