[LarryClapp]

Correct, it's not open source. I did mention that it's a commercial product, but of course some commercial products are also OSS. Mine is not.

> I would want to see a lot more justification for why this is closed

I'm not sure what justification I can offer besides "because I want to try to make a living selling my own software, starting with this product, and I think that'll be easier if it's closed source".

We might certainly differ over price points or value added. Pricing is a bit of a black art and this is my first commercial software product. (As I mentioned in another comment, I'm happy to offer a discount code, if that would help and not get me banned.) Like, would you be happier if it were 1, 5, 20 dollars? Or does the price, as such, even bear on the open-vs-closed question?

I'm unclear on how you (or I) would correlate "added value" or "private lines of code" vs. "justification for being closed source".

Thank you for your comment, this is an interesting discussion.

[arp242]

I'm not the previous poster and I don't think you need to "justify" anything, but the main reason I'd like the source code is so I can fix my own problems and don't need to rely on you. I care a lot less whether that's under an open source license or NDA or whatever: as long as I can build it and include any changes I want.