One Reason Why I Distrust Closed-Source Apps

Google recently announced Lively, the application by Google to compete with Second Life, will close shop end of 2008.

What irks me is:

We'd encourage all Lively users to capture your hard work by taking videos and screenshots of your rooms.

This is exactly one of the perils for a user who threw in hours of effort and ends up left with some silly videos and screenshots. This further affirms my belief open source is the way for me to go, but I am flexible enough to accept CDDL.

More information on GPL can be read here and here.