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In the blog post Dharmesh mentioned that he got early access to the source code from Joel since he was speaking at the conference. This seems like a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to start Q&A sites in a variety of niches. Will it be open sourced soon? How would one get access to the code if you wanted to start a similar site? | ||||
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Actually we didn't get access to the source code, just to the beta program for the hosted site. (That's why we can't change anything about e.g. the reputation system.) It will likely never be open source because this is a new revenue stream for FogCreek software. | |||
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Based on the above comments it appears it's not open sourced, it's a software as a service product, which makes sense. Just wanted to point out that if someone is trying to roll their own, this reverse engineered open source project might be a decent starting point. | |||
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Well, you can trust the Chinese to copy anything that works. And since stackoverflow.com is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic License anyone who makes a copy has to share the copy. The people behind cnprog.com did this (after asking stackoverflow for a chinese-translated version and being told it was not planned for)... and the source for the project is available | |||||
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