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motakuk | 1 year ago

Regarding the "1% of cyanide" comment, I’d like to share another perspective :)

Almost every tech company has private code—typically stored in private repositories. When working on Keep, we faced a decision: should we place certain code in the EE folder under a different license or keep it in a private repo, only sharing it with a small group of enterprise customers who explicitly requested it?

We chose to put that code on GitHub.

Ironically, putting more code in the GitHub repo made it appear "less open source," even though we could have simply hidden it, making the repo look like "clean OSS" as multiple companies do. For example, those who put their products without Web UI to the open source, build UI privately and serve the "full" version in the cloud.

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zlatan_todoric|1 year ago

Fair arguments and criticism. That doesn't make them better at all, I think we can agree on that (and as you mentioned the Web UI situation, yeah, that makes them way worse in gran total).

I wish you all good luck, the product looks good, I hope you monetize it and I hope no big corp forks it and makes some closed source alternative (because MIT license does allow exactly that).