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Re: The FIRST Alliance - A whole new way to play

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Originally Posted by mobilegamer999 View Post

Open Source?
I can almost guarantee that we will not open-source the website. Our biggest reason for this is that we made the API public and extremely easy to get started with so that there was no need to open-source the website. While we wont be open-sourcing the website, we WILL be providing very simple/easy to read code example for how to do just about every feature on the website in many common languages (C#, Java, Ruby, PHP, etc.)
I wouldn't underestimate the ability to source-dive. You can give me all the examples in the world and I bet it won't cover every use case. If I encounter a weird problem I'd love to peek at the source and find out what I'm doing wrong or give you feedback or open an issue ticket or submit a patch myself.

I can understand if you want this to be "your thing" and nobody else's, but then I'd just say it that way. "We documented our API" doesn't really seem like a reason for "It will not be open-source" to me. Maybe I'm just weird.
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