An apology to open source
An open note to Nick's Employers -<p>1) <i>If</i> you are a technology company, this is Harakiri (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku</a>). You are alienating every developer who is worth her salt. If you have a recruiting arm, and they are trying to recruit, god be with them. Ofcourse, you think people will never come to know, but this <i>has</i> the potential to be a good story and press will pick it up. I will not be surprised if Techcrunch or Wired Enterprise picks this up first.<p>2) Strategically, this is so uncool. You could have leveraged this open sourcing in several ways. Made the codebase part of your official Github ( ever heard of Bootstrap?) and drummed up participation. If THIS was the product, you could leverage the free PR to accelerate user-acquisition. Nick had some amazing documentation, and he even got SUCH a cool domain for you guys.<p>3) Eventually, you will lose Nick, who seems quite competent, who will move on to do better things under the umbrella of better employers.<p>Pretty lame, on several counts.