I wish there were a sort of gentlemen’s agreement that cool projects like this that don’t make it as businesses would be open sourced. Almost every project is

I wish there were a sort of gentlemen’s agreement that cool projects like this that don’t make it as businesses would be open sourced. Almost every project is based on open source stuff somewhere in the stack, whether it’s the OS, the main programming languages, frameworks, or whatever. And most people don’t have the time to contribute a ton to the tools we all use. It would be really neat if companies that don’t make it could give a bequest to the various communities and help build a massive library of stuff that, at least at one point in time, ran successfully in production, delivered a certain level of scale, and was able to make some money. If for anthropological or historical or research purposes if nothing else.