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by rchiniquy 4064 days ago
Hi!

I'm also one of the founders. We all have extensive open source experience, have grown up in open source communities, and love open source. We're not committing to 100% open source yet. We'll be pragmatic.

We all want to open source as much as useful to the community, rather than just a code dump. This will probably look like open sourcing the individual libraries we use to build the client, rather than a single open-but-monolithic client. The client is written mostly in javascript[1] so we'll be publishing modules on NPM when the modules we need don't exist already. I think we'll need to build a Go client library pretty soon also. So, for the purpose of code re-use and learning, we'll be open source.

I'm sure we'll also be sharing the complete source for the purpose of security audits. If this is your concern, the answer is Yes, we'll let customers see the code they're relying on for their infrastructure.

Hope that helps!

rch

1. https://github.com/atom/electron

1 comments

Hi, good to hear that. Security audit was my main concern, hence quiestion.