Matt Holt, creator of #Caddy server, is considering releasing his other project Timelinize as open source. His reasoning for why he thought it should be closed and why he's changing his mind are all too familiar to me.
It's very hard to make consumer software and services while balancing openness and sustainability. We really need to crack this nut. If we did we could have so many nice things.
https://github.com/mholt/timeliner/issues/84#issuecomment-2265833012
#opensource
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