Why is NXT giving away its source code?

[jimmykorea]

Why is NXT giving away its code so early? NXT will be taken over by NEM or NEX simply due to antagonism related to the distribution so then all the developers hard work will only result in the clones stamping NXT out or at least just look like just one of a similar group of systems.

[Come-from-Beyond]

Published source code contains security flaws that will kill any copycoin.

[hughmanwho]

We have an amazing development team, look at what they've accomplished with 6 months. 

Not only do they have to worry about those bugs released in the source code, and that when the source code was released they had removed some of the more special pieces, NEM or NEX have to also compete with the community, they will have to learn the code, which is always harder than working with code you've written and they'll always be behind the Nxt development team.

I do think that before the jars are released though, they should be obfuscated and source code should continue to always be at least one month behind though.  Obfuscating the code would make it almost impossible for copycats, right now they can pretty much just run the jar file through a decompiler and use that source code to get around the bugs and delayed release.

[jimmykorea]

We have an amazing development team, look at what they've accomplished with 6 months. 

Not only do they have to worry about those bugs released in the source code, and that when the source code was released they had removed some of the more special pieces, NEM or NEX have to also compete with the community, they will have to learn the code, which is always harder than working with code you've written and they'll always be behind the Nxt development team.

I do think that before the jars are released though, they should be obfuscated and source code should continue to always be at least one month behind though.  Obfuscating the code would make it almost impossible for copycats, right now they can pretty much just run the jar file through a decompiler and use that source code to get around the bugs and delayed release.

But those bugs will be revealed by April. Plus the guys starting clones are also involved in thread on NXT development. If they can deliver what they promise they would have a similar product with the bonus of not haveing the negativity of the distribution of NXT. Seems to me if any of the clone can be up and running within months of NXT the NXT has a problem, surely?

[Come-from-Beyond]

I doubt clones will be able to clone Transparent Forging coz it's a know-how and not implemented yet.

[magoon]

Open source is an important feature of trust. On closed source projects developers can do whatever they want, even modifying features to their own profit. Hopefully, the source code will be open source by time.