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		hankchinaski 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gumroad’s source is available I don’t get the point on going open source aside from a tiny boost in marketing. What is the objective and proposition here? Considering as others have said is not really open source. If I were the founder I would not do that. It’s like if Airbnb went open source or something

insane_dreamer 10 months ago [–]

The value of AirBNB is not in its code but in its network.

hankchinaski 10 months ago | [–]

And yet is never gonna be open source

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