Why wouldn't a project like this be OSS? How do they expect to monetize? People buying dialtone subscriptions as a social network?
Why wouldn't a project like this be OSS? How do they expect to monetize? People buying dialtone subscriptions as a social network?
Besides monetization there are other factors for not open sourcing.
* fear of being critizied for bad code
* not wanting to deal with contributions
* license compliance (maybe using something commercial, maybe trying to hide bad license usage)
* trying to keep control
* missing understanding of open source in general
* ...
So what is the idea with something then? Build software and...?