Jason Antic

So there's a larger context here, and I gotta say, it's really silly to project everything through such a narrow lens. It's more complicated than that.

If what I'm saying is incorrect, why does it seem to upset you? Just shrug it off and move on. It's not like my opinion matters. I think you're upset because you know the lens isn't so narrow, and that it's easier to believe the lens is narrow.

There are endless justifications for not releasing one's own work: Someone might take it. Some other business won't tolerate it. I'm trying to be smart about it. I will release it, just not yet. It's almost always evasion. And it's easier to believe that than to just do it.

I mean....that's what you're hearing lol

Not merely hearing; I've used those justifications myself before. And I was mistaken. All that work is gone now, and never amounted to anything. With open source, at least some of it has mattered (at least in a small way).

The crux of the issue here seems like you're dead set on believing that giving away the code = giving away the money. It's just not true.

It means having to find a round about way of making money on what took all of the work, and placing our bets on something else that we really doubt we can compete on (design, scalability, etc). We can't afford that right now as a two person team. We sell reearch.

Why do you believe showing the code will remove your ability to make money with it? Do you think MyHeritage wouldn't have contacted you if the code was available? There's a cognitive dissonance here: your code *was* open source and yet you still made money.