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    <p>In short: go for it. I doubt there's little to lose, but much to gain. </p> <p><em>The pros:</em></p> <p>**Good karma*</p> <p>never a bad thing to have.</p> <p>**More attention to our website*</p> <p>possibly a con if your code is <em>really</em> bad :)</p> <p>**Perhaps getting fixes and improvements from others*</p> <p>this is possibly the best thing you get from open-sourcing your code. Its all about sharing and helping each other, you get to use other's code, they get to use yours and everyone's gained from the trade.</p> <p><em>The cons:</em></p> <p>**Without investing more development, the tools might make us look bad*</p> <p>I'd search through to remove dodgy/rude/stupid comments, tidy up the formatting etc. </p> <p>**Publishing of the code requires some effort*</p> <p>requires barely any effort - set up an account in Sourceforge, create a <a href="https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Subversion" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SVN repo</a> there and import your code. Then create a binary package (a zip file will do) and <a href="https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Release%20files%20for%20download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">release it</a> using the website. Might take you an hour, if you stop to read all the documentation.</p> <p>**Some of the tools might be too specialized for our needs*</p> <p>You could set the whole lot up as a group - eg PowerBuilder Tools, then people who see the really specialised tools won't have wasted their time getting them, they'll still have the 'more readily useful' tools.</p> <p>**The whole effort might go unnoticed given the shrinking community*</p> <p>Possibly, but then there's really no reason not to release the code. If you don't it may get completely lost to everyone when/if you change development tools.</p>
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