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I wouldn't do it. It'd be like a dead lover. Don't get suckered into prettying up her corpse on the off chance your opinion of necrophilia changes.
Dealing with 5 year old code is okay now. In 10 years it will cause you pain. It's like going back to an ex after you lose attraction. It never works out and hurts both parties (in this case your users, because you won't maintain it or want to pretty soon)
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What's to exploit? The company won't exist anymore...
People's servers hosting it. I will not be officially responsible but anyway not nice. I may be just paranoid
[random advice from the internet] If you really want to put an open source project out in the world the right way, taking what you learned and building an appropriate code base might be a better route. And if you don’t really want to put an open source project out in the world, that’s okay. Your customers had an interest in paying you enough to stay in business. They did not pay enough (and maybe because you did not…
What does "appropriate code base mean"? If I did it, then I would of course cleanse a bit here and there, make the corpse prettier as somebody wrote in another comment. More thant that, however, is an amount of work which is just not viable. Thanks!
I wouldn't do it. It'd be like a dead lover. Don't get suckered into prettying up her corpse on the off chance your opinion of necrophilia changes.
100%. Dealing with 5 year old code is okay now. In 10 years it will cause you pain. It's like going back to an ex after you lose attraction. It never works out and hurts both parties (in this case your users, because you won't maintain it or want to pretty soon)
Just don't. Keep a copy wherever others suggested, keep a photo in the folder with the ex-bf/gf think about it every few years (I wonder how she is doing - in a Morty voice) and quickly move on!
Software is hard to kill. See Softpress Freeway as an example in the same industry.
If you don't open source it, it will either wither and be abandoned or someone clever will "open source it" for you in a way you may not like. Software is hard to kill. See Softpress Freeway as an example in the same industry.
If you don't open source it, it will either wither and be abandoned or someone clever will "open source it" for you in a way you may not like. Software is hard to kill. See Softpress Freeway as an example in the same industry.
Hey, I do not quite understand your statement. How should this happen? Ex Devs? Hacking my git account? Or do you mean something else?
With AI and other tools developing rapidly, I wouldn't be surprised if someone was able to do things with your code in ways you didn't expect, even if you choose not to open source it yourself.
What is the stack? Feel free to send financial details to my username at proton dot me.