I know xeroc has some major skills. I'm not doubting the abilities, nor the intentions.  I have been a great advocate for curie, having upvoted every post I have ever seen and made posts requesting that others do the same.

I have seen in the past others speak of their distaste for curie, and it is that which I referred to in my previous comment.

> If we go this route - the code will be closed, but its operations can still be made transparent..

By the operations being transparent, do you mean that someone will explain what's going on in the code, but without it being publicly viewable?

If so, I feel that any transparency in that case would be subjective, for one would need to place there trust in a human, rather than in a visible, irrefutable code. 

I fear this would not help to sate the reservations of those that already harbour doubts about Curie, and I would hate to see anymore animosity within the community in regards to this issue. 

I feel Curie offered me a ton of help, and I know they have helped a lot of others too. It seems that, based on this post, it was already part of the plan to make it open source, perhaps for similar reasons. I don't think that you should so easily abandon your initial vision for this new advancement of the project.

The idea is this:

I build a platform that is as open as possible from the content perspective and allows you to organize your curators more nicely. This service will not necessarily require you to give posting permissions to streemian but only gives people a set of links they may (consider) to upvote that is curated by curie. The content can be very open to you but the underlying technology that does this for you needs to be closed source until I have another significant advantage over competitors.

Either way, I can understand that you'd rather prefer a open source solution and it is of course totally up to you. All I can offer is a probably quicker implementation as part of streemian instead of a new development from scratch ..