AntiImperialis4

That doesn't protect you against violating someone else's license. If you never make it opensource, nobody has to know.

Definitely don't. Nothing good will come to you from it.

You abandoned it for a reason and only people who'll benefit from it are other people. That would be fine if it was not at your expense. Someone may look at the source code and contact your support or even take you to court because one of your programmers ignored license of a third party library. You could get it audited and re-write parts of it... even so, there is a non-zero risk that someone will come after you.

If you're OK with that, do what you want. Otherwise, by default, don't opensource your abandonware.

If you're a startup, there is no way you will move fast if you don't incur tech debt. Why is it seen as a bad thing? It should be a given.

Once you know that your company is there to stay, you hire experienced people and create a strategy to pay it back.

Yes, I did read the whole thread.

Nobody is stopping one from voluntarily donating to a non-profit or for-profit organization, or being involved in one for that matter.

In Europe, most people don't work 3 jobs because either it's not legal to do so or those jobs don't exist because of debilitating regulations... or at some point, making more isn't really worth it because of how high the taxes go up.

You can't. It could actually be a paid shill or a customer who really bought into the marketing or a troll. It's best if you seek another alternative.

DO compare it and see how much one can end up saving in a given time in the US, even after paying for healthcare, education etc.

Don't you need to find some setting buried somewhere deep to enable installing dmgs now?