You've been around HN for 600 days as I write this so I'm surprised you've asked this question here. You should know that "open source it" was going to always b

You've been around HN for 600 days as I write this so I'm surprised you've asked this question here. You should know that "open source it" was going to always be the popular answer on HN in 2013. The 2009-2010 HN crowd was mostly startup founders, investors, and employees 1 and 2 and it was also mostly people in the US. The 2013-2014 crowd is mostly not startup founders, investors, and employees 1 and 2m and it's probably 50% US folks. As many other recent HN folks have said, "HN is just another subreddit now." That results in a very different hive mind today than in years' past. If it was me, I'd be wary of making "business decisions" based on the answer to a popularity contest on a site mostly frequented by people who (a) don't live in my country, (b) didn't grow up in the countries I want to do business in, and (c) do not and have not ever actually owned or run a business. The problem, of course, is figuring out whose advice to take and whose to ignore. Always tricky...