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I think the "open source everything" movement is misguided. Open source generally doesn't work well for anything except for very large "community projects". I
by dstein 16y ago
I think the "open source everything" movement is misguided. Open source generally doesn't work well for anything except for very large "community projects". I've seen it countless times -- one highly skilled coder can often out-code an entire community by several fold. "Build by committee" results in a large, slow-evolving codebase that never gets finished. Whereas a web app or iPhone game need to be built fast, and with a clear vision. In general, open sourcing it will just slow the project down, and now you have a human resource problem on your hands, and you need to deal with poorly written code being patched into your project. It's an overhead that's not worth it when the project owner can usually code the bug fixes, and features faster than any outsider can.