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"There's still time to open source it. I'm confused why they don't, at this point." can't... it's really difficult to retroactively open source something. Onl
by burtonator 8y ago
"There's still time to open source it. I'm confused why they don't, at this point."
can't... it's really difficult to retroactively open source something.
Only a few developers grok the code and they work for your company and are about to move on to another project.
Tooling is usually proprietary and tied into some 3rd party infra....
Look at OpenJDK... Sun and Oracle dragged their feet FOREVER on this and the project still has problems because of it...
Should have been OSSd in 2005 but Sun was insanely naive.