As a developer myself, I feel very strongly that developers should be free to do whatever they want with their own code. End of story. So, if Nilbog et all want to keep their source closed, I firmly support that position, and I'd argue that no one should give them any flack for it.
That being said, open source is what "all the cool kids" are doing nowadays. I believe most projects could benefit from open sourcing, and that includes Project 1999. Just imagine how many bugs would get fixed if it all it took was a pull request.
Plus, since P1999 isn't for-profit (and the usual reason to keep code private is to profit from it), I'm honestly not what the motivation to keep it closed is. I don't mean that as a dig against them; I mean I'm genuinely curious, if one of them wouldn't mind taking the time to explain.
But again, Nilbog and the other developers put all the hard work in, so they don't owe me or anyone else an explanation, and if they want closed source then more power to them. Even if the entire reason was "I hate the word 'open'", I would still support them 100%.
Oh, and I say all this as someone who has been trying to help the dev team for awhile (but for various reasons, such as me putting my application in the wrong spot, I have yet to hear back). I am genuinely willing to help with my L33T coding skillz, and if I could (ie. if the source was open) I'd already be trying to fix a bug.
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