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  • What about your company are you trying to save? Commented May 2, 2011 at 17:53
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    Pardon the contrarian viewpoint, but why are you releasing the source code if you're concerned about competition? What's the strategic advantage for the company? Everyone seems to just assume that open source is always a Good Thing, and I just don't see it. What's the corporate motivation for this move? Commented May 2, 2011 at 18:30
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    We want to release the source code of the project because 1) we believe any source code increases its quality when it is Open Source because there are more eyes looking at it 2) we want to attract bright programmers that we can hire 3) we feel better if we think we are doing something that will benefit more people 4) we want our user to trust us even more 5) we don't want to have just users but fans 6) we hope some great developers will give great input for the improvement of the project 7) we feel we are cool if we do something other companies usually don't do :-) Commented May 2, 2011 at 19:46
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    @dan: Wow. I'm a fan. Don't know the project, but love the attitude :) Commented May 2, 2011 at 20:10
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    @dan, I suggest you see how MySQL did it. Basically the trick is to sell services utilizing the know-how you have. Commented May 2, 2011 at 20:47