Given the choice to use a closed web service versus one with all the code available, I'd pay more every time to use the open one. With some good luck and hard

Given the choice to use a closed web service versus one with all the code available, I'd pay more every time to use the open one. With some good luck and hard pushing, I should have a terrible web application for hacker news people to critique and ripped to shred. It would also be a chance for you to try my service and see if you're going to pay for it. We'll see, we'll see...