What are some good reasons for stackoverflow (or any other online community) to remain closed-source?
Newbie (idealist) coder here.  Forgive my naivete:

Another way to put it - what do you think would happen to the community of SO or SE went open-source?  

I would imagine offshoots into other areas of life would show up, like cooking or aviation or really any niche.  Maybe some refactoring or optimizations would be made.  It seems like they have the critical mass they need.  If you were StackExchange, LLC, why *wouldn't* you open up the code?  

My curiosity lies in other areas too - if you were Zuckerburg and cared more about providing sustainable value than taking it, why wouldn't you open up facebook?  


What are some good reasons for stackoverflow (or any other online community) to remain closed-source?
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Newbie (idealist) coder here.  Forgive my naivete:

Another way to put it - what do you think would happen to the community of SO or SE went open-source?  

I would imagine offshoots into other areas of life would show up, like cooking or aviation or really any niche.  Maybe some refactoring or optimizations would be made.  It seems like they have the critical mass they need.  If you were StackExchange, LLC, why *wouldn't* you open up the code?  

My curiosity lies in other areas too - if you were Zuckerburg and cared more about providing sustainable value than taking it, why wouldn't you open up facebook?  

