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> I knew if I spent a year working on this project and then found out that it was going to be kept in-house forever, I would feel that my project and my effort
by BooneJS 8y ago
> I knew if I spent a year working on this project and then found out that it was going to be kept in-house forever, I would feel that my project and my effort had been stolen from me, no matter how much I got paid in the meantime.
I don’t know how to parse this. Is the author talking about corrode 2.0 being stolen? Or that someone would pay him to write code that can’t be released or discussed in public?
- hawkice 8y agoMy read is, if the goal is a super valuable open source project, developing it and having it stuck in-house sucks. And what can you do? Reimplement it from scratch open source? Sounds like a massive pain, and if the open source tool is an important goal, the closed source project doesn't get you anywhere except frustrated.