Do you know examples of situations when developers made an open source project and regretted it?

Question

open source

Interested in examples of both domestic projects and foreign ones.

Answer 1

The feature of open source is that it is very difficult to screw up a project...
A complex project is not only a code, but also a team, infrastructure, a recognizable name.
If you steal, for example, Facebook sources, then at least you won’t be able to make a clone of Facebook in the foreseeable future ... it will be easier to write it from scratch
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And if suddenly a competitor really can make exactly the same more successful service based on your code, it will only be an indicator that your product would have died anyway ... but the difference is that no one would know about it

Answer 2

I do not understand how you can regret what you did? Even if it's open source.

Answer 3

Perhaps the story with TrueCrypt fits your description...

Answer 4

Something extraordinary must happen for such upset
. The only thing I see as a cause of trouble is writing code that will violate the NDA and / or non-compete agreement.
But again, the upset is not because of the project itself, but because of the consequences

Answer 5

Found a couple of things on git. I will not shoot, but the trick is that the turnips that were supposed to be closed remained in the public domain.
So thank the aboltuses, who thought that everyone knew))
For that, now there are a couple of very functional and popular engines;)

Answer 6

I don’t know about projects that I regretted, but very often I meet an open source project that is spinning in the cloud with chips, but as an enterprise solution.

Answer 7

blizzard and wc3 map editor. valve then earned a lot on dota, and blizzy missed this profit

Answer 8

Yes, there is such - "Internet"

Answer 9

Probably here is an example https://habrahabr.ru/post/331462/ a person regretted the time spent, as it seemed to me, but it does not depend on whether you have open source or not.