How do you get around the niggling feeling that you'll be judged on the bad quality of your code from N years ago?
Opensource your abandonware (2010)
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Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#12Open Source Flash from Adobe would be great.
I would love Opera's Presto engine to be open sourced. A few days ago I've read taht there are extreme memory optimizations so that it could be run on centralized servers for their Opera Mini variant. Also we really need more browser engines.
Too late, probably (open-sourcing, not the threat of monoculture). The owners of Opera AS (a Chinese VC as of now) aren't probably interested in that. It would be much more probable that Microsoft will release IE under MIT over open-sourcing Presto.
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#13How do you get around the niggling feeling that you'll be judged on the bad quality of your code from N years ago?
You remember, that everyone was a beginner once and put a note for that in the release. Laugh at yourself, so it becomes unnecessary for others to laugh about you.
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#14Definitely don't. Nothing good will come to you from it. You abandoned it for a reason and only people who'll benefit from it are other people. That would be fine if it was not at your expense. Someone may look at the source code and contact your support or even take you to court because one of your programmers ignored license of a third party library. You could get it audited and re-write parts of it... even so, the…
This is why many open source licenses come with explicit warranty disclaimers.
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#15Open Source Flash from Adobe would be great.
I would want to also, but I imagine that third-pary components used will be problematic (plus the "Ha! That's why its insecure!" comments from some parts of the computing community).
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#16How do you get around the niggling feeling that you'll be judged on the bad quality of your code from N years ago?
If it's abandoned who cares?
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#17Anecdotally, the .tk domain is a great idea in principle for giving so many people the opportunity to have their very own namespace for free. But like so many free things, bad actors(spammers, et. al) ruin it for the rest of us.
IMHO, .tk is a bit cheesy but on the other hand, who cares really? This article is just a simple rich text document, in principle it could just as well has been served over FTP or Gopher, or hosted on Tripod or Angelfire or whatever. (Yes, those still exist!)
I’m a bit of a tin foil hat kind of a guy and for my own personal websites I prefer serving them with HTTPS and HSTS, but it’s more of a best practices thing and it’s not really a matter of life or death for my (very few) visitors.
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#18Here is the problem though: let's assume that the developer really wants to release the source code , but the problem is that they have used a third-party library where they cannot legally release because they simply don't have the rights to it. This complicates open-sourcing that software (this is already proven from time-to-time, for example the OpenJDK Java runtime needs to and has changed third-party components l…
> but the problem is that they have used a third-party library where they cannot legally release because they simply don't have the rights to it.
Just release everything else. Someone can write their own library for that or maybe even find a replacement in the open-source world.
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#19Open Source Flash from Adobe would be great.
Re: Opensource your abandonware (2010)
#20How do you get around the niggling feeling that you'll be judged on the bad quality of your code from N years ago?
If it's abandoned who cares?
I think it's a mixture of two things:
One is a, perhaps misguided, internal fear of being judged. Another one is that prospective employers sometimes look at one's github history.