Jason Antic

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.

Yeah that's exactly how it would have gone. They were quietly using my open source until they found out about the code that I didn't give a way yet that looked much better. If it were free and there was no alternative, why would they contact me?

Your code would be released under a restrictive license. Are you saying that they'd blatantly rip off the code? They'd contact you for the usual reasons: They want to make money with your code, and your code prohibits anyone from making money with it except you.

Here comes the army of lawyers I don't have.

You keep saying that lawyers are necessary. Your position on this is "Companies will break the law unless I have lawyers to stop them." It's ironic that you're so idealistic with politics but so jaded with business. :)

Yes. As we've seen the past few years in particular, the only thing that stops a lot of scum bags from breaking the law is enforcement of said law. Idealistic? Well I certainly don't like Trump and make that well known but not sure if that's "idealistic".

Yeah, somehow the only idealist I can see here is you, Shawn. I mean it's nice that you hold humanity in such high regard and that you seem not to have had any bad experiences in that area. In my experience sharing is good for fame and karma, but not something that pays the rent.