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by stonogo 4046 days ago

  Anyway, if there's enough response from the community for
  Open Source - then we'll do Meat! Open Source. We've 
  never had any problems with that and we never will. Just 
  let us.
I hear this a lot. Why wait? Who cares if there's no community response? It costs you nothing to throw up a repository, and it's free advertising. Maybe you'd even have time to talk to a real attorney about getting a useful license in place. Your potential customers would be able to answer their own questions by looking at the code, and enthusiastic supporters will submit improvements for free.

If your service is worth money, it will make money regardless of who can see your source code, but it does not reflect well on your team as a business operation that you were unable or unwilling to properly construct or acquire the single most important document relating to your income.