Nostr Web Client

I predict open source is going to have a day of reckoning. Devs are already asking "why should I put code on GitHub for free?" and they're right to. Microsoft owns it and other big corporations have essentially built giant projects off of code stolen from there (AWS is an example). Equally, they are starting to ask "why should I do uncompensated work on open source projects if megacorps will be the main beneficiaries?". Given the abuses of devs by the corporations of late, loyalty to employers is shot. I think we are looking at a major change in the software world over the next 10-15 years.

Silberengel 5mo ago

With AI, closed source doesn't work, anymore, unless you only offer code as webservices and keep the family jewels hidden in the servers.

We do half/half, with some of our code on GitHub and public, but the cooler stuff on a private git server. It doesn't really matter, in the end, as we're pretty much the only people who can read and understand the code, so it being open or closed is largely irrelevant.

There's now so much open-source code, out there, that we've run out of humans to examine it, so code gets rated by the WoT of the developer. As if it were closed-source.

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