Open source only works well if many many people are contributing. If open source and only limited contributors, a closed-source profiteer will just steal your ideas and code and publish something before you finish. Once a project has many contributors, however, then the open source project is moving faster and stays ahead of the closed source.

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It's not stealing if my license allows copying. Way too many projects get started and nobody ever cares to copy them which to me feels like starting them was a waste of resources.