The Silent Number

Posted: 2009-04-15

FriendFeed, the coolest app no one uses, should be the new Twitter, but i still have one problem with it: it's closed-source. Identi.ca is open source, so i'm using that until FriendFeed releases their code. I posted to their feeback room proposing they adopt APGL (respond if you're in support!) and someone had the idea that as a for-profit, private company, they would never free their source code. I don't see why keeping their code proprietary protects their profits at all since they don't make money by selling it and Reddit is a great example of open sourcing success. So, why don't they?