Both Open and Closed but no Lock-in
By looking at the software on our site, you may have noticed that Spectral Class provides both open source software (released under the MIT license) as well as closed-source binary software. This is because we believe in a world where both ideas work quite well.
We have found that most users, which are concerned about information freedom, were more concerned with vendor lock-in techniques as opposed to access to the source code. Thus, we refuse to participate in vendor lock-in techniques. Whatever media a user creates with our tools will always belong to them and always be accessible since we either release the source code to our programs which created said media or we will release detailed specs or code fragments which can read the document formats. At the end of the day, we want to ensure that data can always be read by the user and both of these approaches are means to that end.

Better Libraries, Better Tools
Much of software development seems to be spent either solving a problem which has been solved countless times before or writing code which is tedious and a slow way of implementing a solution which may be conceptually simple.
In an attempt to solve these problems, Spectral Class will be releasing our frameworks for use within the community. Additionally, we already offer StarLight for free (no matter what changes in the future, there will always be a free version available) and we will be releasing tools to help developers create software on the StarLight Platform.

Sell the Product, Sell the Platform, Sell the Philosophy
In previous employment experience, we have found that there is a great deal of amazing software which is kept as internal tools and only used by the company that developed them. We think that this is squandering of a great deal of problem solving potential. In contrast, Spectral Class believes that all software is useful to someone and should be made available to them. Thus, everything that we use is either available for purchase, given away for free, or will be available once it has reached a meaningful state.