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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMá<div class="post">I still think we are talking about two different components:<br/><ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>The clients</li><li>The protocol</li></ul>The protocol is open (not well documented but it's out there), while the clients do not have to abide to any special restriction AFAIK. Even if we were to enforce a license on the clients by adding a special clause to the protocol agreement, there would be users that modify an open source client, but then they don't sell it so that they can still keep it closed source.<br/>In one of my projects we are using the RPL, which isn't open source in that sense, it specifies that any modifications to the project have to be shared with the original community, but still that doesn't avoid a client being kept closed source from the start.<br/>Once the network has grown enough it'll get really hard for a single entity to ever tip over the balance like ArtForz because there are more people with the resources and they will compete for the top spot, and thus balance things out.<br/><br/>How about a bounty for both the best performing source enhancement and for the best performing community driven rig? Something like the Netflix 1'000'000$ bounty for code improvements?</div> text/html