Its open sourced because. 1. Internally, its a legacy tech that's slowing people down and costing $$$ to maintain. 2. Its not something that'll give any compe

Its open sourced because. 1. Internally, its a legacy tech that's slowing people down and costing $$$ to maintain. 2. Its not something that'll give any competitor a leg up. Given its a completely saturated market even 10 years ago. 3. Hence, open source it, in the hopes someone will improve/maintain it for free