I’ve toyed with the idea of open sourcing the product. I reached the conclusion that it’s not the approach for two main reasons:
- I believe in a strong, centralised product vision and execution
- The code will be packaged up and sold by unscrupulous people who will not contribute back
I’m a strong advocate of interoperability and open data formats. The Monodraw data format is not proprietary and I do have plans for a plain text format (currently, it’s just zipped JSON which doesn’t play nice with VCS).
Interoperability is key to competition and avoiding lock-in, so I’ll push in that direction as my time permits.
- I believe in a strong, centralised product vision and execution - The code will be packaged up and sold by unscrupulous people who will not contribute back
I’m a strong advocate of interoperability and open data formats. The Monodraw data format is not proprietary and I do have plans for a plain text format (currently, it’s just zipped JSON which doesn’t play nice with VCS).
Interoperability is key to competition and avoiding lock-in, so I’ll push in that direction as my time permits.