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by Kiro 1531 days ago
Easy to say, harder to do. I get anxiety just thinking about it.

What's the goal? You make it sound like I have an obligation to do it for some utilitarian reasons, while in reality maybe one or two previous customers would use it while migrating to something else. It's crap software with much better OSS alternatives already.

It either dies with me or dies as an abandoned repo I need to be ashamed of.

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I am just jumping in not to pressure you specifically to dump the source but in my experience in quant finance and music software development (hobby), I see kind of a tragedy of the commons especially in finance. If more people made their source available upon winding down a project it would drive down costs in the entire industry and indeed the whole tech ecosystem.

Reimplementation saps alot of productivity from the economy.

My dude, who is ashamed of open source repo?