I posted it as a toplevel so that the idea would gain more exposure. (I certainly don't care about karma -- it's meaningless.) I'm genuinely interested to know what people think about the idea of open-sourcing their product at launch. And the more people who give their opinion, the better.

Feel free to leave a comment here or in the other thread.

I find it interesting I'm slowly developing a love of getting karma. It seems to come from if I'm getting it, someone is reading my comments, and there may be interesting replies to read....

Well I'm probably just being a stick in the mud - but that seems like a bad idea. If everyone posted comments as threads the top page would be a cluttered mess.

Only if everyone made insightful or otherwise useful comments, which the community then upvoted. That would be a good thing, not a bad thing.

Also please consider that I spent a good deal of time on crafting my reply, in the spirit of hopefully helping someone (and not to read myself talk). Also, my reply was about a totally different topic than the thread it was inspired by.

Your post definitely was worth submitting as a topic, agreed. I don't think that it's worthwhile too often, but in this case it's thoughtful, well-written, and interesting. Better than most blog posts I've read recently.

I had a comment of mine submitted as a post a while back, and I was very grateful - I thought the comment was worth a post. If comments are valuable stories, then, I don't see a problem at all with your self-submitting this one.