Thanks for the clarification. Now that you have resigned know there are those of us here that enjoy talking to you about things outside of steemit. Philosophy, Anarchy, Coding and other things. I am one of those that would be interested in seeing you at least stick around on the platform to engage in stuff like that with people like myself. I view this project as more than the code, and the money. It is also about the people and the ideas. You can still be involved with that. If there is some conflict of interest preventing it then I can understand that, but I did want to at least express that I for one would enjoy interaction with you. I find it personally valuable. If not here then it'd be nice to somehow know where you might be engaged/interacted with in the future. My email is simply my handle here at gmail.

As to the open source nature and what you wrote here. That seemed to be integral to what this project was being designed as. This is therefore concerning a number of people that see this as being different.

We market it as decentralized. In a way it is, but as soon as you lock it behind patents, and other barriers you are adding a degree of centralization/gate keeping back into the design.

Good luck, best wishes, and thanks for posting.