Intrigued by individuals' decision trees on deciding whether to commercialize something or open source it.
An example would be Firebase vs Hoodie or Firehose.
<i>whether to commercialize something or open source it.</i><p>Those are not mutually exclusive positions. Software can be open source (or even free software) and still be commercialized.<p>In our case, we made all of our products open source for a number of reasons, some ideological and some pragmatic. Whether or not that proves to be a good decision from a financial standpoint remains TBD... but the important thing is, it doesn't matter. If we never make a dime from what we're doing, we'll all have benefited from the process in other ways. And we'll have contributed something to the world that somebody may gain some benefit from one day.