It prevents endless discussions on github, hurt egos when my precious PR is rejected by committers, and commentary on not being true open source because they are not welcoming source contribution, feature request, when they are trying stabilize compiler and so on.
Now none of these are guaranteed to happen when it is open source. But at least it is guaranteed to not happen when its not open source.
I don't understand that argument at all, unless you think that the only value of open source is in the potential for people to say nice things about your project. If you think there's inherent value in something being open source, you don't even need to have a Github repo (a tarball on your website with the source code is open source), and nothing anyone says would take away from that inherent value.
I'm firmly of the opinion that there's inherent value in being open source. I would honestly expect most developers to recognize that nowadays, but maybe I'm wrong. My concern is that someone who doesn't think this is the case is probably more likely to also not want to come right out and say it, because that would potentially prevent them from getting the value they're truly looking for from the stuff they do open source. The justifications that are being given here is that they seem to be heavily predicated on the value of open source being primarily from marketing rather than the very nature of code being open having value on its own, and I would be both surprised and disappointed if that's the opinion of the people in charge of Mojo. I'm sincerely hoping that there's something else going on here though, so I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt and see if I'm missing something.
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It prevents endless discussions on github, hurt egos when my precious PR is rejected by committers, and commentary on not being true open source because they are not welcoming source contribution, feature request, when they are trying stabilize compiler and so on.
Now none of these are guaranteed to happen when it is open source. But at least it is guaranteed to not happen when its not open source.
I don't understand that argument at all, unless you think that the only value of open source is in the potential for people to say nice things about your project. If you think there's inherent value in something being open source, you don't even need to have a Github repo (a tarball on your website with the source code is open source), and nothing anyone says would take away from that inherent value.
I'm firmly of the opinion that there's inherent value in being open source. I would honestly expect most developers to recognize that nowadays, but maybe I'm wrong. My concern is that someone who doesn't think this is the case is probably more likely to also not want to come right out and say it, because that would potentially prevent them from getting the value they're truly looking for from the stuff they do open source. The justifications that are being given here is that they seem to be heavily predicated on the value of open source being primarily from marketing rather than the very nature of code being open having value on its own, and I would be both surprised and disappointed if that's the opinion of the people in charge of Mojo. I'm sincerely hoping that there's something else going on here though, so I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt and see if I'm missing something.