No big company ever started out by open sourcing their core product. It pretty much dooms the whole enterprise. There's been over a dozen companies that tried t

No big company ever started out by open sourcing their core product. It pretty much dooms the whole enterprise. There's been over a dozen companies that tried to sell support for Postgres, they all went out of business. Then you have Intuit(quickbooks), AutoCAD, Adobe, Salesforce, etc... All companies with software that is not easy to use. From impossible to expensive to customize. All huge companies. No open source there. This isn't to say I don't understand your argument, I do. But you haven't seen the product. It kicks Salesforce's ass. Developers that see it want it. I've had people tell me after a presentation that everyone is going to copy us once they see it. Javascript frameworks are going to go out of style tomorrow, etc... We have a big advantage and we aren't going to open source it. At this point we'd rather keep it in house and write a stupid dating site.