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I think the real promise of open-source is “If we die, and it’s important to you, you can keep it working.” Also, security bug bounties natively.

• detaro 5y ago
  The former is fairly pointless for the case discussed here, API bindings to a proprietary product.
  • jandrese 5y ago
    That assumes the cloud service is irreplaceable. Having the source to the API means if Google shuts down their service you have the possibility of migrating it over to a new service with only a minimal API change. This assumes you have some way to get your data off before the service goes kaput though, which is not always the case.
    • detaro 5y ago
      It at least assumes that a competing service is different enough to give the API wrapper low value, yes.