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Yes there are plenty of those. And if they then blatantly state that they are not open source because they don't want somebody to build a business on their product while that's exactly what they are doing, then they lost me as well.

I really like what you guys are working on, and I'd absolutely give it a try. But this is really a deal breaker here. Make the team-oriented features proprietary that need server space and accounts and all that, open-source the rest and enable it to run offline. Maybe not tomorrow, I get that. But the moment you do this will open the dams. Until then, you'll stay in a niche.



As pointed out elsewhere, the product (with waiting list) was announced here 8 months ago where open-sourcing was suggested (privacy and security and all that), but it seems that it hasn't been important to them.




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