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I hope you're coming from a good place but I can't help but find this kind of comment naive and a little rude. It's never as simple as "here's the code, have a
by joshstrange 3y ago
I hope you're coming from a good place but I can't help but find this kind of comment naive and a little rude.
It's never as simple as "here's the code, have at it". Actually packaging things up and documenting it takes times and effort. Also I'd imagine it feels like somewhat a slap in the face. "Hey, I see you've donated your time and money to this project until you felt you couldn't any longer but please donate more time to package it all up for some heretofore unknown entity that might benefit".
It's a lot easier to call for something to be open sourced than it is to actually take up the mantle and carry the project further. Same as when people say "Well have you seen if someone else wants to run it if you don't?" As if that's not a massive time investment of vetting and researching, not to mention your name is still attached to it even if you hand it over. Somewhere down the line a less scrupulous person might wrest control and do who knows what with it.
Lastly, it's been my experience that the majority of people asking for something to be open sourced have never used and/or are not interested in the original thing. They say it almost if by rote.
Again, I want to be clear I'm not trying to come down or attack you personally, I just feel like this statement gets thrown around a lot without a care in the world for the effort involved. I've had it said to me, I put in the time to clean up a project enough to open source, and no one touched it again as far as I can tell. That's more than a little disheartening.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoI'm definitely coming from both a place of naivety and optimism. No offense intended, in fact it's intended as respect for what appears to be a service that has legitimate use and reason to exist, hence it would be a shame for it to be extinguished entirely.