Today's post, Friendly Projects vs. Products was originally published on December 5, 2008. A summary:

Friendliness can take two forms. Friendliness can refer to whether or not your project will only benefit its creators, or whether that project will benefit competitors as well, or it can refer to how the project will treat its creators.

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