2005-12-17
How high do you lift your skirt?
So,
as some of you might remember, I've thinking of startups, and think I have got a pretty good idea.
But in order to fulfill my vision, it would involve writing a bit of infrastructure which isn't there. Now my plan isn't to use this to enable my site, not to sell or to make money directly off.
So.. here's the dilemma, should I make the infrastructure an open source project in the hope of sharing the R&D effort with some other developers and then run the risk of a potential competitor using it, or do I assume that the pie is large enough for multiple players?
Right now I have chosen the middle road, and am going to opensource the components which are 'commodity' stuff. for example the user registration, captcha, and auditing
to name a few, and It's been evaluated/used by at least 2 people. I think I'll leave it at that for a while.