Re:The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story
by mintplant on Saturday August 31, 2013 @04:15PM
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Thank you for going the open source route! There are so many cases where a company goes under and something of value is lost because the original developers couldn't maintain it.
For example, I would have loved to have seen a community-maintained version of Glitch [1] take over after the game died out, but Tiny Speck refused to open up the source code because they believed it would be too complicated for anyone but themselves to run—a justification which has never made sense to me.
And if nothing else, it gives a deep peek into how a production system is run, something I'm always grateful for.
For example, I would have loved to have seen a community-maintained version of Glitch [1] take over after the game died out, but Tiny Speck refused to open up the source code because they believed it would be too complicated for anyone but themselves to run—a justification which has never made sense to me.
And if nothing else, it gives a deep peek into how a production system is run, something I'm always grateful for.
[1] http://www.glitch.com/