>so honest question - what's in it for ME if I open source? You lock the market. Once there is an open source project in a niche of high enough quality, especi

>so honest question - what's in it for ME if I open source? You lock the market. Once there is an open source project in a niche of high enough quality, especially if it comes out first, it will essentially never be dislodged and you can get corporate licenses for support/priority bug fixes. Also in your case: encrypted. There is no app outside those that come pre-shipped with their platform that does encryption, isn't open source and is popular. Lastly free work. To this day I am still shocked when I have people submit patches to code I've written without being asked/paid.