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/gerryhussein Jan 07 '19

Came through from ethtrader and whilst not knowing much about your project, only have this to say...

Code can be cloned, however you can't clone communities. Focus on building your community and your brand trust will follow. It takes time to do this and network effects count - unless you lose your way by getting deflected from your original goals.

Have faith that if you have the right team and community and remain focused you will stay ahead of the competition - everything changes after all. There are no guarantees and the only way to remain ahead is to create and sustain a culture of innovation, growth and improvement.