In reply to Samuel "Otto" Wood.

Interesting read, except for one thing. It is arguing the case for 95%, and not the 5% which most software developers here belong to.

Even so, it makes sense overall...

"If you stay closed you will usually get the worst of all worlds ~ your secrets will still get exposed, you won't get free development help, and you won't have wasted your stupider competition's time on cloning. Most importantly, you miss an avenue to widespread early adoption. A large and influential market (the people who manage the servers that run effectively all of the Internet and a plurality of all business data centers) will correctly write your company off as clueless and defensive because you didn't realize these things. Then they'll buy their [software] from someone who did."