I've been making desktop apps for two decades (proprietary closed source software). My target audience is businesses, not HN users so I haven't ran into these

I've been making desktop apps for two decades (proprietary closed source software). My target audience is businesses, not HN users so I haven't ran into these open source zealots. Some businesses do ask for open source (politely declined) Some have also asked to place the source code into escrow for continuity in case the business folds (also politely declined but for some companies this a reasonable ask) The thing is that people will ask for literally anything and the requests are asinine: * Rewrite in java\python\ruby\c++\whatever language the IT guy read about last week (nah) * We need a mac version for the one guy who somehow uses a mac (nope) * Support oracle (fuck no) * Support novel networking (lol) * Make a webapp (lmao) I'm also not afraid the "hacker" who is going to re-write my app. If theirs is truly better, I will just fork it and crush them :) Don't let the bobble heads dissuade you. If you want to make a desktop app and if you think the desktop is the correct medium, do it.