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thecatspaw
7y ago
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opening up publishes all your vulnerabilities, bugs, hacks and swearwords in the code as well. Thats plenty of reasons to not go open source
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Operyl
7y ago
Security by obscurity really isn’t a great place to stay on long term. There is also an entire backend to this. I can only see great positives long term here, even if it means someone nefarious finds a bug in the short term.
onion2k
7y ago
Those are reasons to open the code up. You'll be motivated to improve it.
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