Quote from: btell on July 06, 2014, 10:49:18 PM

Quote from: synechist on July 06, 2014, 10:33:54 PM

This is XC's stance on open source:

XC is committed to the open source model. Open source code is vital for the health and advancement of cryptographic technologies, and it is a privilege to share our technical breakthroughs with a community such as this. We believe that XC's code embodies several world-firsts enabling anonymity that is scalable, mobile-friendly, POS-integrated, and is ultimately a platform upon which a broad range of Blockchain 2.0 technologies will be built. However we have been under severe attack from competing projects. Furthermore peoples faith in altcoins is significantly hindered by clones. Therefore we believe that the ethical way to engage with the community is to make code available on a delayed timeline. This way, the community will still benefit from our work, while we'd reduce the incentive for developers to flood the marketplace with clones that lack a long term future and reduce the trustworthiness of the altcoin phenomenon. XC represents several market-leading innovations, and we are honoured to make these available to the community in the near future.

AS you and Teka mentioned above, if I have understood correctly, XC is somewhat like NXT with added somewhat anonymity. For example, NXT is the whole platform with decentrolized asset/shareholder exchange builtin.

NXT was not opensourced except of very earlier version. When other developers looked at that version, they mentioned bad codestyling and a lot of bugs. Since that, NXT dev never released open source of later versions. Hopefully NXT is written in Java and may be decompiled a lot though bothersome.

XC is written in C++ as I suspect. So I conclude, XC to be a PROPRIETARY closed source money platform for a TIME, and nobody can estimate how much is this time? Am I correct or wrong?

You're not quite correct.

- XC is not a coin with added anonymity, it is a platform for privacy, decentralised exchange, decentralised storage, fully functioning (and staking) mobile wallets, and secure private messaging and chat.

- XC did not release its code early on. But Dan did make its code available for peer review to refute FUD that XC was a clone of Fedora.

- We will provide a development timeline around Rev 3 (i.e. very roughly in the next few weeks). Around this point we will state when we will be releasing portions of XC code.

- Once the code is mature and XC is successfully launched and adopted, the full code will be made available.