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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by DangerousPie on Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:39PM (#22322504)
Given the amount of work and legal risks involved do you really blame them for being reluctant though? How many man-hours were spent on sorting out all the legal issues, doing the rewrites you mention etc?
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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by pierre on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:44AM (#22324467)
~6 man months in my case.
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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by DangerousPie on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:34AM (#22326329)
Do you think the benefits of open sourcing will make that worth it? How?

I'm honestly asking, I'm curious how people do the cost/benefit analysis for things like this.

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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by pierre on Friday February 14, 2020 @03:22PM (#22330037)
Mostly worth it for the team. Its good to be working on opensource project full time.

Also as an internaly, explaining this project have N star buy you political capital and facilitate access to extra funding to pursue the project longer.

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