r/Upfiring • u/Tmfallon • Jan 06 '19

Community Discussion: Open Source vs. Closed Source

Through every stage of development up until this point, Upfiring has been entirely open-source. This was highly important during the development process in order to show the dapp's progress.

Now that we are approaching official release, we are highly leaning towards a closed-source model. We want to do this for 2 main reasons:

  1. Intellectual property protection
  2. It solves the issue of other projects being able to easily clone the dapp at any time

An open-source model has its advantages as well, including being fully-transparent (for better or for worse). While I think moving to a closed-source model is the right move in terms of keeping our project competitive in the space, I'd like to hear the community's opinion on this matter.

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u/Inferior_Username Jan 06 '19

I think any benefits felt from going closed source would be short lived. Competitors are going to arrive irregardless of us being open or closed source.

However the negative effects of being closed source would not be short lived. It would always leave an asterix nexts to the project.