Not sure I follow. What's the definition of open development?
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I interpret the phrase to mean that the *source* is available but you don’t get to see/participate in the process, vs. the process itself being open/visible
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Replying to @CodingItWrong @hibaymj and
Well even with this duality, RN still sits in the grey area in the middle I think
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Replying to @Kelset @CodingItWrong and
It’s got nothing to do with PRs and everything to do with why your source is available openly. Open source in this context would only be open to avoid licensing issues, specifically to extract as much value for yourself legally. PRs for them is just extra value they can extract.
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Open development is about developing with the community openly and creating value for all to freely use. It takes more effort, and would contribute to the benefit of your competition. The distinction is all about who gets the benefits of the code being open source.
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Ironically, I believe creators and maintainers get a lot of value from open development (when done well) in almost all cases, and that most OSS projects that think they're saving time by closing development end up spending more time dealing with the effects of that decision.
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Once you've decided to open up the source and offer any notion of support for that source code (even Android falls into this category), you can significantly cut down on those support costs by enlisting users to help contribute and maintain the software.
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Still, after all of this, I find it hard to "label" React Native as one or the other. It still has elements from both descriptions
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(that said, I haven't watched yet the talk
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If there is asymmetric communication, I don’t think it is straddling the definitions. They build it for themselves, let it be used, train engineers before hire, get free contributions to their codebase, all with no additional cost and licensing isolation from competitors.
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And yet, the thesis of the talk I gave with @littlecalculist is that they would *still* be better off opening it up, when all costs are accounted for.
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Which I completely agree with, however breaking the coda of the MBA and teaching an understanding of add sum scenarios is an entirely different conversation. Moving that needle is very hard, possible but energy intensive.
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