Ask HN: Business implications of open sourcing our framework?
I&#x27;ve spent the last two years building a framework called Q, in order to enable a consistent, easy creation of social apps and everything that goes with it (realtime collaboration, mobile, addressbook integration, facebook integration, and more). I&#x27;d like to make it available to the wider internet because I believe the greatest good comes when platforms are eventually open sourced. (The web, computer languages and frameworks, etc are mostly open source.)<p>But I would like to ask about the business implications of this. My company has obtained friends+family funding of over $100k, which - together with our own bootstrapping - helped pay for this framework. We plan to make our money with the apps that we build on top of it, as well as consulting and growing the ecosystem. What are the implications of open sourcing it, and under what license?