I think there are plenty of reason for this, and the question should be &#x27;why open source the original code rather than having a clean start without all the dependencies and ugly things that accumulated over the years?&#x27;.<p>Once it&#x27;s open, people will scrutinize everything, especially something as high profile as parse. They don&#x27;t need publicity about commit message &quot;Joe is so fucking stupid&quot; that slipped away or something equivalent.