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by jessedhillon 3842 days ago
Yeah, the difference is that the "narrow hypothetical" is a concern a real person at any company would have when tasked with deciding whether something should be open sourced. It's appropriately conservative.

You, however, are asking everyone to assume that it's totally safe to reveal any/all source code.

> There are no private APIs nor secret data structures in software that you've distributed to users.

That's fine. What about the code that lives on your servers and supports the client?