From a technical point of view, it may reveal parts of the sausage making, or expose technology and libraries that you still use and rely on. From a competitive point of view, you might risk having a big enough resurgence that it eats into the business of your replacement. > Is there any good reason why the sources need to stay closed if they aren't going to make any further gains, financial or otherwise, from this product and its ecosystem? Non-game software, on the other hand, when it's dead, it's usually dead for good. These usually reuse the engine and sometimes some of the assets. Old games do sometimes come out as "remasters" for modern platforms. Thinking of it, it makes more sense for non-game apps than for games to release sources. I'd love to take a look at their implementation of real-time photo filters. Unless they're going to somehow resurrect the service, there's no good reason for the sources for the apps to remain closed. The apps were insanely cool, especially at the time of Path's peak around 2013, but the service was shut down a few years ago. Path, the social media thing for "close friends", their mobile apps. It does not seem interested in maintaining the old Winamp app. The company behind it pivoted to some kind of streaming social donation thing. This was leaked and of course I hoarded it, but it would be nice to see an official release. Again, it's dead for good as far as Microsoft is concerned, so why not release its sources for people to learn and hack on? Is there any good reason why the sources need to stay closed if they aren't going to make any further gains, financial or otherwise, from this product and its ecosystem? I mean the Flash Player plugin and standalone app specifically, not the Flash authoring software - that's still alive under a new name, Adobe Animate.
Adobe has stated in no uncertain terms that Flash is dead.
It would make sense to release their sources so people could learn from them and run them on new hardware more easily.įlash Player. No one has sold these OSes for 20+ years and they turned out to be evolutionary dead ends. Here's a few examples of non-game old software that would benefit the society if open-sourced:
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