Why most of the projects are not open sourced?
1 Do you hope building income on it?
2 Do you afraid of stealing your idea?
3 Maybe loosing control over project?
Honestly, none of these look right for me. Let me explain:
- If you are building it for the sake of Allah, you shouldn't be looking for money. Of course you need to feed your family and it's impossible to work on something when you hungry. But I don't think this ever worked for most of this kind of projects anyway. And especially this won't work for Islamic. (Maybe it's easy for me to judge having full-time job)
- It's rare case when idea is brilliant and usually even big companies don't try to steal the idea, even for commercial projects. It's easier to buy the developer team. (Look at recent acquisitions of AI open-source projects and it's 99% like this)
- I don't think it's right approach too. If you are maintainer and contributor you are in control. If you are stepping out and someone takes care of the project, this is most open-source maintainers dream.
Maybe I'm missing something?
u/Different_Bonus_1387 — 6 days ago